Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Bead with Royal Name
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.
An ancient Egyptian blue faience amulet with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small, elongated amulet made of blue faience, a material commonly used in ancient Egyptian jewelry. It features several black hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface. The amulet is likely designed to serve a protective or decorative function, given the common use of such items in personal adornment and burial contexts. The inscription style suggests careful craftsmanship, often seen in amuletic objects from the later periods.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
djed pillar
ankh
Visible text
"Ankh-Wedja-Seneb"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408512 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.78 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329856 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.