Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Round pendant
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, rounded artifact with a central hole, made of a glossy material.
The artifact is spherical and features a polished surface with an orange hue. At the center, there is a hole which appears to have traces of green patina, suggesting the presence of bronze or copper. The simplicity and concentrated wear suggest it's a bead or element of a larger piece.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245531 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.274 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545090 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.