Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Wire earring
Description
Copper alloy
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 spiral-shaped metal artifact, possibly a ring, with corrosion visible.
The image depicts a corroded metal artifact in the shape of a spiral ring. The surface shows signs of oxidation, suggesting it is made of a metal like bronze or copper. The artifact appears to be ancient due to its corroded condition and simplistic form, with no visible decoration or inscription discernible in the image.
unclear
unknown
poor
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280091 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.478 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547048 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.