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

Bracelet Fragment with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

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Description

Faience

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.

A fragmentary blue faience artifact possibly depicting an ankh or similar symbol.

The artifact is a blue faience piece, likely intended to represent a symbol. It shows a curved, broken top with parallel lines and a suggestion of a loop or handle. The style is typical for Egyptian ceramics intended for decorative or symbolic purposes, highlighting craftsmanship in faience work.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials faience

Connections

Found at Malqata
Materials Faience
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  • 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.
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