Cymbal
Description
Music, cymbal. Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Copper Alloy. h. 2.2 cm (7/8 in); diam: 6.1 cm (2 3/8 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.
A single round bronze/copper-alloy cymbal-like disk viewed from the front, showing a dark green patina and surface wear.
The image depicts a circular metal object with a broad rim and a shallow/flat face, consistent with a small cymbal or gong disk. The surface is darkened with green corrosion products (patina) and scattered lighter patches where the metal is abraded. No figurative decoration, repoussé work, or iconographic imagery is visible. A faint red-orange printed/stenciled number/mark is present near the lower center, but it is not legible enough to transcribe as an inscription in ancient scripts. No hieroglyphs, Greek, or Coptic text are visible. The overall condition appears worn with corrosion but largely intact.
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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.
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