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

Hoop Earring

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

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 simple, undecorated gold bracelet likely of Egyptian origin.

The artifact is a smooth, polished gold bracelet with a simple circular shape and no visible inscriptions or decorations. The bracelet is open-ended, suggesting it may have been worn by slipping onto the wrist. The style is minimal and lacks any ornate features commonly associated with more elaborate Egyptian jewelry.

decorative unknown excellent
Materials gold

Connections

Materials Gold

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281830 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 68.136.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546180 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.