Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Menat with royal name Ptolemy
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.
Faience sistrum with hieroglyphic inscriptions and a cartouche.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian sistrum made of faience, characterized by its distinctive shape and incorporating hieroglyphic inscriptions. The piece features a prominent cartouche, which may indicate royal association. The inscription consists of vertical columns of hieroglyphs, indicative of traditional Egyptian artistic styles. The sistrum is well-preserved, bearing clear inscriptions and a smooth surface.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
excellent
Royals
unknown
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
djed
Connections
Materials
Faience
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.