Hair ring
Description
Third Intermediate Period–Late Period, Dynasty 21–30, ca. 1070–343 B.C. Shell. Dia 1.4 cm (9/16 in.). From: Tomb MMA 830, Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1928.
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 small, ring-shaped object with a circular hole, likely worn as personal ornament.
A single hair-ring–like form is photographed against a plain light background. The object appears as a thick, smoothly polished circular band with a hollow interior. The surface is light cream/ivory in color, with minimal decoration and no visible fastening elements. No hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other markings are visible on the object in the provided view. No inscriptions in Greek/Coptic/Arabic are seen.
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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.