Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Leather ball
Description
Leather (deerskin); pigments
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.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian artifact with visible corrosion, possibly a metal object.
The artifact appears to be a round object, possibly made from a metal such as bronze or copper, given the visible greenish corrosion. The item is placed on a neutral background with a measurement scale below, suggesting a carefully documented archaeological context. The surface shows signs of age and degradation but retains a recognizable form.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
metal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244020 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.10 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545493 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.