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, rectangular fragment of an inscribed/painted or stamped Egyptian object, likely ceramic/faience, showing a dark outlined figure or sign on one face.

The image shows a small, thick fragment with a roughly rectangular shape and slightly rounded edges. One face contains dark markings forming an abstract, enclosed motif: a curved stroke with a pointed end and an oval-like element, surrounded by a rectangular border-like frame. Adjacent to the left side of the framed motif is a vertical dark band that may represent additional incised/painted sign elements. No clear cartouche, royal name, or fully legible hieroglyph sequence can be confidently identified from the provided resolution. There are no visible traces of metal inlay; the surface appears ceramic with an overall yellow-brown tone consistent with fired material. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No deities are clearly identifiable.

unclear New Kingdom (Ramesside), as catalogued; exact signs not fully legible fragmentary
Materials faience (surface appearance; not independently confirmed by color alone)
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic or decorative sign within a bordered frame
Visible text "Portion of an enclosed, bordered sign; exact reading unclear"

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442712 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.31 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573219 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.