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.

A small, irregular fragment of an Egyptian faience object showing painted/applied decorative bands in dark lines and turquoise/green areas.

The image shows a rectangular, broken fragment with rounded edges and a mottled surface. Portions of the fragment retain a turquoise/green glaze or pigment, while other areas are light brown/cream, suggesting loss of glaze or exposed ceramic body. Across the visible face are simple, linear decorative elements: a dark curved/diagonal band near the upper left and darker horizontal bands lower down, with intervening turquoise patches. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or figurative scenes are legible on this fragment. The object appears too small and fragmentary for confident identification of specific iconography or any associated deity. The surface wear and chipping are consistent with an archaeological break; there is no visible metal core or attachment hardware.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside) — consistent with catalogue; exact dating unclear from the fragment alone fragmentary
Materials faience glaze (turquoise/green)ceramic/body (light brown)paint or applied dark pigment/lines

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116442713 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.182.19.32 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 573220 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.