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.

The image shows a small, weathered fragment of an ancient Egyptian faience object with no clearly legible decoration or inscriptions visible.

A rectangular, broken fragment is photographed against a light background. The surface is mottled with areas of greenish coloration and darker streaks, suggesting residual color typical of faience, but no distinct molded motifs, bead-forming features, or hieroglyphic text can be confidently identified at this resolution. The break edges are irregular, indicating fragmentation from a larger piece; however, the fragment is too plain to verify the bracelet form directly from the image alone.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside) — per catalogue; visually not confirmable fragmentary
Materials faience (color residue)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442682 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.13 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573201 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.