Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Anklet
Description
Black, white and green 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 segment of ancient Egyptian faience tiles arranged in a checkerboard pattern.
The artifact consists of rectangular faience tiles, primarily in shades of green and beige, arranged in an alternating pattern. The composition suggests it may have been used as decorative inlay in a larger piece, possibly furniture or an architectural element. The tiles are uniformly shaped, typical of Egyptian decorative arts.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245581 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.263 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545084 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.
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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.