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

Broad Bracelet of Sithathoryunet

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Description

Gold, carnelian, turquoise, faience, Egyptian blue, lapis lazuli

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.

Colorful strips of inlaid faience tiles with two sections of hieroglyphs.

The image depicts four strips of faience inlay with alternating blue, turquoise, and yellow tiles. The left sections of two strips contain vertical hieroglyphs arranged in cartouches. These tiles might have been part of a decorative piece, possibly from a royal or religious object due to the presence of hieroglyphs in cartouches.

decorative New Kingdom good
Materials faience
Signs ankh ×2

Connections

Found at Lahun
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281161 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 16.1.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545534 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.