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

Finger stall

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Sheet 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 shiny golden artifact resembling a fingertip cover.

The artifact is a golden object shaped like a cover for the tip of a finger. It features smooth surfaces with some minor decorations at the top. The bottom is open, allowing it to fit over a finger or similar structure. Its appearance suggests it may have served a decorative or protective purpose.

unclear unknown excellent
Materials gold

Connections

Materials Gold

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276528 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.8.149 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547648 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.