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.

Rectangular fragment with a dark-lined wedge-like/feather-shaped motif and surrounding green-blue glaze consistent with a small faience object fragment.

The image shows a small, rectangular piece with rounded edges and a mottled green-blue surface, suggesting a glazed faience body. The visible decoration consists of dark (black/brown) linework forming a central, upright wedge or feather-like element; the motif is partially incomplete due to the broken edges. No clear cartouche, deity figure, or complete hieroglyph sequence is preserved; the lines could be part of bracelet ornamentation or a decorative sign but are not legible with certainty at this resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside), based on catalogue ground truth; motif not legible enough to refine from image. fragmentary
Materials glazed ceramic/faience (green-blue)
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic/drawing fragment (wedge/feather-like linework)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442697 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.21 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573209 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.