Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Penannular Earring
Description
Shell
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 penannular (open) hoop earring fragment shown from the side against a plain background.
The object is a circular, open-ring form with a break/gap at the top, consistent with a penannular earring. The surface appears smooth and matte with slight discoloration and small dark specks or pits consistent with wear. No attached findings (e.g., pin/hinge) are visible in this image beyond the hoop itself. There is no readable hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text visible, and no clear iconography of deities or royal names.
decorative
New Kingdom (catalogue ground truth)
good
Materials
shell (appearance suggests a light-colored calcareous material)
Connections
Found at
Deir el-Ballas
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281076 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.6.99 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 558092 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.