Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Cylindrical Bead
Description
Glazed steatite
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.
Small, cylindrical artifact with a greenish patina.
The artifact is a small cylindrical object with a weathered greenish surface, possibly indicating the presence of faience or corrosion. It lacks detailed inscriptions or carvings, suggesting it may have been a decorative piece or a component of a larger object. The surface texture is uneven with visible signs of aging.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280640 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.234 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546887 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.