Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Ceremonial helmet? / funerary crown? inscribed for the Osiris Hor-Psamtik
Description
Faience
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 bell-shaped object with inscriptions on its surface.
The object is a bell-shaped artifact with a smooth, rounded top, crafted with a greenish patina, suggesting a material like bronze. It features a vertical column of hieroglyphic inscriptions on the front side. The artifact is mounted on a base, suggesting it is displayed for preservation or exhibition purposes.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Signs
reed and basket
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281926 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.2.9 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546105 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.