Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Earring with ibex head
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 gold artifact featuring a zoomorphic head on a spiral form.
The artifact is a gold ring or earring displaying a detailed zoomorphic head, likely a ram, at one end. The body of the artifact is a spiral that wraps around forming a complete loop. The craftsmanship includes intricate detailing on the head, with visible features such as eyes, ears, and curled horns. The style suggests fine metalworking skills.
decorative
Ptolemaic
excellent
Materials
gold
Connections
Materials
Gold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281937 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 40.9.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546077 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.