Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Motto Clasp of Sithathoryunet
Description
Gold, carnelian, paste
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
An ancient Egyptian jewelry piece, likely an amulet or inlay.
The artifact is a square-shaped piece consisting of gold and inlay materials, showcasing a stylized Anubis-like head in profile. The central inlay is red, potentially carnelian, surrounded by other hues, suggesting a mix of materials such as faience or similar stones. The gold frame holds it together, typical of jewelry or embellishments from the New Kingdom period.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
goldcarnelianfaience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247868 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.1.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544414 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
- 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.