Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Ball bead
Description
Faience (blue)
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 round, segmented artifact made of colored material.
The artifact is a spherical object with six symmetrical segments alternating in color, primarily green and brown. A small hole is present at the center of the top. The object appears crafted with a smooth finish, possibly made for decorative or functional purposes.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280377 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.243 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546894 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.