Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
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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 spherical object with visible hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a blue faience ball with a smooth surface. It features a small set of hieroglyphs that are incised into the surface. The style is typical of Egyptian faience, known for its bright color and glossy finish. The object seems to serve a decorative or symbolic purpose.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×4
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251911 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1989.281.91 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544054 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.