Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Sweret bead
Description
Carnelian
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 smooth, polished, red-colored stone artifact.
This artifact appears to be an elliptical, polished stone of a reddish hue. Its smooth surface suggests it may have been used decoratively or functionally, possibly as jewelry or an amulet. The lack of inscriptions or engravings indicates it was valued for its material and craftsmanship, rather than any symbolic depiction.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245577 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.271 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545087 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.