Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Fragment of a votive bracelet

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Faience

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small rectangular fragment of an inscribed/decorated Egyptian object, showing a single large dark motif resembling a hand/raised sign on a sandy surface.

The image shows a freestanding, small rectangular fragment photographed against a light background. The fragment has a worn edge and a mottled light ground with darker brown/black painted or incised areas. On the visible face there is one prominent stylized element centered-left/right, resembling a simplified hand with stacked short strokes and a curved lower line, suggesting a painted motif or sign. No surrounding bracelet fittings, beads, or clearly curved bracelet profile are visible in this crop, and the motif does not clearly read as a standard hieroglyph. No cartouche, royal name, or clear deity figure is identifiable. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The overall surface appearance is consistent with a colored ceramic/faience fragment, though the exact material cannot be confirmed from the image alone.

unclear New Kingdom, Ramesside (per catalogue; visual evidence insufficient to verify) fragmentary
Materials unclear brown/black pigment or incised dark markingceramic/faience-like surface (not directly confirmable)
Signs Unknown stylized motif resembling a hand/gesture (possibly a non-standard hieroglyph or decorative symbol)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442680 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573199 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.