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.

The image shows a small circular object resembling a ring made of a pale, translucent/ceramic-like material.

Centered against a plain light background is a single hoop-shaped artifact with an inner hollow. The object appears ring-shaped with a relatively uniform thickness and a smooth exterior surface. There are faint spots/discolorations on the outer rim; no decorative motifs, inscriptions, or hooked/ornamental terminals are clearly visible in the provided view. No cartouches or iconography can be made out from the image resolution/angle. The overall look is consistent with a faience ring, though the image does not allow confirmation of material type beyond a general ceramic-like appearance.

decorative New Kingdom (as catalogued) good
Materials faience (catalogued; appearance consistent with a glazed ceramic)

Connections

Found at Deir el-Ballas

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281068 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 17.6.116 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 558109 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.