Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Bead with openwork design
Description
Blue and yellow faience
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A turquoise blue faience amulet with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a tear-shaped amulet made from turquoise-colored faience. It features intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions including various symbols and motifs that are typical in Egyptian amulets. The craftsmanship suggests a focus on protective or symbolic purposes, with a drilled hole at the top likely for wearing as jewelry.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
scarab
Connections
Materials
Faience
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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.
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