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Toe stall

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Description

Toe stall, Group 2. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Gold. L. 5.1 × W. 2 cm (2 × 13/16 in.). From: Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1921–1922.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Small, gold-toned object shaped like a tapered cap or sheath, photographed from above/side with a dark interior base.

The image shows a compact, metallic object with a rounded, dome-like top and a tapering cylindrical body. The surface appears smooth and reflective, consistent with a cast or polished metal component. The base edge is dark, possibly due to shadowing or attachment of another material; no clear inscriptions, iconography, or carved figures are visible. The object does not present legible hieroglyphs or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text in the provided view. No clear deity attributes or royal cartouches can be identified from the image.

unclear New Kingdom (per catalogue); image details insufficient for secure verification. good
Materials gold

Connections

Materials Gold

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116276524 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.8.159 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547653 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.
  • 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.