Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Pair of Sprial Earrings (with 16.10.470)
Description
Electrum
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.
Two spiral rings, possibly used as jewelry.
The image shows two spiral rings made from copper or bronze. These rings are constructed by coiling a single metal strip into a circular shape. They appear simple in design, indicating potential use as jewelry or functional items in ancient Egypt.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
copperbronze
Visible text
"Partial inscriptions visible along the edges of the rings, unclear due to wear."
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235348 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.469 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547045 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.