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

Ring

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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 turquoise/green faience finger ring with a carved bezel showing the front of a deity-like figure in relief.

The image shows a single small ring-shaped object photographed against a light background. The material appears to be turquoise/green faience with darker blue-green and brownish staining or wear. The ring’s bezel is elongated and rounded, with a raised relief depiction on the front: a face with prominent eyes and a forehead/upper head area, and a simplified torso or garment band beneath. The reverse and ring band details are not clearly visible from this angle, and no clear inscribed band text can be read. No cartouche or royal name is visible, and the figure’s iconography is too unclear for confident identification of a specific deity. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible; no legible hieroglyphic inscription is present.

decorative New Kingdom (as catalogued); exact dating unclear from image alone. good
Deities unknown (deity-like figure carved on bezel; unclear)
Materials faience (turquoise/green glaze)

Connections

Found at Deir el-Ballas
Deities AmunRaAmun-Ra

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116250438 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 17.6.87 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 558076 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.