Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Model of Papyrus Roll
Description
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 blue cylindrical artifact, possibly a bead or amulet.
The object is a small, cylindrical piece with a bright blue color, suggesting it may be made from faience. It appears worn, with a smooth surface and no visible inscriptions or decorations. The size and shape suggest it might have been used as a bead or amulet, likely strung on a necklace or bracelet. The simplicity of the piece, along with its material, is typical of small personal artifacts from ancient Egypt.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413689 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.34 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544836 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.