Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Spacer-bead with images of divinities and a king
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 faience artifact depicting figures in an Egyptian style.
The artifact is a rectangular piece of blue faience featuring a relief of figures that appear to be in motion or a procession. The composition includes stylized human figures with distinct Egyptian iconographic elements, possibly indicating a ceremonial or ritual scene. The faience material suggests it may have been a decorative or symbolic object.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408652 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.101 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329879 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.