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.

Small fragment of an Egyptian faience votive bracelet with faint colored decoration and possibly molded/pressed bands on the exterior.

The object appears as a short, rectangular-to-rounded segment of a bracelet, viewed from the outside surface. The surface is light gray to beige with speckled inclusions typical of faience, and it has areas of reddish-brown and greenish discoloration suggesting glaze/paint remnants or weathering. Along one left edge is a darker, vertically oriented strip that may be part of the bracelet’s decorative motif or a molded element. Across the face are faint horizontal band(s) or strokes that could belong to stamped/painted ornamentation, but no clearly legible hieroglyphic signs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible in this image. No identifiable deities are clearly depicted; the visible marks are too fragmentary to attribute confidently. No visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside), as catalogued; image not diagnostic enough to refine further fragmentary
Materials faience (glazed ceramic; exact color of glaze unclear due to wear)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442685 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573204 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.