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.

Unfinished/fragmentary small rectangular piece with a mottled brown surface and localized turquoise-blue patches, bearing faint incised markings that may be decorative or inscriptional.

The image shows a small, roughly rectangular fragment with worn edges and heavy surface abrasion. The dominant surface is brownish/tan with speckled texture. In the right and lower-left portions there are areas of turquoise-blue coloration consistent with glazing or remaining colored coating. Faint, dark incised/painted motifs appear across the center-left (including what could be semicircular and line elements), but the marks are too eroded and low-contrast to reliably read as specific hieroglyphs. No clear cartouche, deity figure, or legible royal titulary is visible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent.

unclear New Kingdom (Ramesside), unclear from image due to erosion; consistent with catalogue attribution fragmentary
Materials turquoise-blue glazed surface (faience glaze remaining)brown ceramic/stone matrix (unclear)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442696 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573208 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.