Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Inlaid Rosette

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Gold, faience, red jasper, blue glass

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 decorative ancient Egyptian rosette with colorful inlays.

The artifact is a circular decorative rosette made of gold, featuring an intricate design with inlays of various colors, likely red, blue, and turquoise, suggesting glass or faience materials. The design radiates outward in a petal-like formation, highlighting expert craftsmanship and aesthetic appeal prevalent in ancient Egyptian decorative arts.

decorative unknown good
Materials goldfaience

Connections

Materials FaienceGold

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116388887 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.8.252 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548592 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.