Cymbal
Description
Music, cymbal. Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Copper Alloy. h. 1.3 cm (1/2 in); diam: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
The image shows a circular, concave bronze/copper-alloy disc consistent with a small metal cymbal face.
A single round object is photographed from above against a light background. The surface is dark green with corrosion products (verdiris/patina) and shows a central circular hole. Around the hole there is faint, irregular tooling/decoration consistent with wear or manufacturing marks. No clearly readable hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible on the object itself; a red handwritten-style accession number is present on the lower rim area but it appears to be catalog/collection marking rather than ancient inscription. No iconographic figures, deities, or cartouches can be confidently identified. The overall form (thin, round, perforated metal disc) aligns with a cymbal/catalogued function.
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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.