Attachment feather for a large crown
Description
Headdress attachment, feather. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, ca. 595–30 B.C. Bronze. H. 29.9 ×W. 9 × D. 3.5 cm (11 3/4 × 3 9/16 × 1 3/8 in.). Probably from: Temple, enclosure, southern part. Credit: Museum Accession.
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.
Object shown is a tall, feather-shaped, ribbed bronze element on a small base.
The image depicts a dark bronze (or bronze-like) object with a narrow, vertically oriented profile. Its surface is decorated with closely spaced horizontal ribbing, giving it a striped, feather-like appearance. At the lower end, the object widens slightly and sits on a small rectangular support; there appear to be small molded attachments or feet at the base. No clearly legible hieroglyphic, cartouches, or other text elements are visible. No distinct figures or identifiable deities are discernible from the photo. The overall form strongly matches a decorative crown-related component (feather/crest attachment), though the image does not allow confirmation of an exact crown type.
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.