Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Drop pendant
Description
Ivory (elephant)
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.
An ancient Egyptian stone artifact with a hole through the center.
The artifact appears to be an elongated, ovoid stone with a smooth surface and a drilled hole through the center. It displays signs of wear consistent with age, suggesting it may have been used as a tool or a decorative object. The stone’s coloration is a muted, natural brown.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415007 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.182.2a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547107 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.