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

Archer's wrist guard

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Description

Leather

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.

Dark, textured leather arm/wrist guard with a shaped protective pad and two loop-like bands/straps extending from either side.

The image shows a small, dark object on a neutral background, photographed from above at a slight angle. The central portion is a triangular/rounded protective pad with a crumpled or pebbled surface texture. Two curved strap/band elements extend around the sides, forming loop-like openings intended to secure the guard on an arm or wrist. No painted decoration, metal fittings, or clear attachment hardware is visible. The object appears worn and organically preserved, consistent with leather. No hieroglyphs, cartouches, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible on the image.

decorative Middle Kingdom–Early New Kingdom (per catalogue); imagery itself is not sufficient to refine dating. good
Materials leather

Connections

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243460 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 23.2.76b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 556018 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.