Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Wig tube (from a group of three)
Description
Gold
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 gold cylindrical artifact with horizontal grooves.
The artifact is a cylindrical object, likely made of gold, with evenly spaced horizontal grooves running around its circumference. It appears to be composed entirely of this metal and lacks any visible inscriptions or markings. The surface is smooth, and its simplicity suggests it may have served a decorative or symbolic function.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
gold
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.