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

Ring Fragment, Frog in the round

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Description

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Faience, blue, green. L. 1.9 cm (3/4 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1910–11. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.

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 small blue-green faience ring fragment modeled in the form of a frog, shown in partial view.

The object appears as a fragment of a ring with a sculpted frog head/body in relief-in-the-round. The surface is glossy and worn, with the most prominent feature being the frog’s rounded head and snout, and a suggestion of facial markings or eyes molded into the faience. The piece is predominantly turquoise-blue with areas of lighter weathering to greenish/whitish deposits. No clear diagnostic hieroglyphs, cartouches, or textual inscriptions are visible on this fragment. No identifiable deities are explicitly indicated beyond the frog iconography.

decorative New Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth) fragmentary
Materials faiencebluegreen

Connections

Found at Malqata
Materials FaienceBlueGreen
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