Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Serapis
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 sculpted ring depicting the bust of a bearded figure, likely a deity.
This ring features a detailed bust of a bearded male figure, possibly representing a deity. The sculpture is intricate, capturing facial details and a headpiece or crown, indicative of divine or royal status. The material appears metallic, suggesting a luxurious creation.
religious
Roman
excellent
Deities
Serapis
Materials
metal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282270 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 49.159.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546013 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.