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

Fragment of a votive bracelet

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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, worn fragment of a likely blue-green faience object, showing faint molded or incised decoration on a rough sandy surface.

The image shows a thick, rectangular-to-trapezoidal fragment with rounded edges and heavy surface abrasion. The exterior appears mottled and sandy, with traces of darker brown/gray staining. Faint, low-relief linear/curvilinear marks and an area that could be part of a decorative motif are visible on the face of the fragment, but the details are too eroded to identify as specific hieroglyphs, figures, or a clear bracelet design. No cartouches, readable text, or distinct deity iconography can be confirmed. The overall appearance is consistent with an excavated ceramic/blue-green faience fragment, though the exact original color is not clearly preserved in the photograph.

unclear New Kingdom (Ramesside), based on catalogue attribution; surface details too indistinct to independently confirm. fragmentary
Materials unknown (surface appears sandy/abraded; faience not clearly confirmable from photo)

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442698 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.22 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573210 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.