Cymbal
Description
Music, cymbal. Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Copper Alloy. H. 1.9 × Diam 7 cm (3/4 × 2 3/4 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, shallow circular bronze/copper-alloy disc with a green patina, photographed from above; no clear decorative program or inscription is visible.
The object appears as a round, cymbal-like metal disc viewed centrally. The surface shows extensive dark/green corrosion consistent with aged copper alloy, with scattered lighter specks and uneven patination. There is a slight raised rim along parts of the edge, but no legible hieroglyphic or other script is apparent on the visible face. No cartouches, royal names, or iconographic figures can be confidently identified from this image. The photograph background is light, and the entire object fills most of the frame, with no additional context (e.g., suspension holes, handles, or paired elements) visible.
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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.