Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Ball bead
Description
Faience (green)
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 spherical object with a hole through its center.
The artifact appears to be a spherical stone or similar material with a small, circular hole running through its center. The surface is rough and shows signs of wear, suggesting age. There are no visible inscriptions or significant decorative elements.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280240 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.282 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546923 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.