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 covering, possibly used for burial purposes.
The artifact is a gold sheath designed to fit over a human finger, likely a part of funerary equipment. It appears to be a burial adornment, characteristic of Egyptian burial practices aimed at protecting or beautifying the body in the afterlife. The surface is smooth and polished, with minimal decoration apart from the outline of a fingernail.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
gold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276523 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.8.160 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547654 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.