Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Toe stall
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 finger cover from an ancient Egyptian burial.
The artifact is a gold finger cover, smoothly crafted to fit a human digit. It is rounded at the tip and has a small hole at the base for attachment. Such items were typically used as part of the mummification process to protect and adorn the body in preparation for the afterlife. The gold shiny surface suggests it served both a protective and decorative function in royal or elite burials.
funerary
New Kingdom
excellent
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.