Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Cowroid bead
Description
Glass, gold
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 bead with a blue centerpiece set in metal.
This artifact is an ancient Egyptian bead featuring a central blue faience piece, likely glass or a similar vitreous compound, encapsulated in a metallic frame. The metal is embellished with small, rounded decorations, possibly bronze, surrounding the centerpiece. The bead is elongated, and the symmetrical design suggests it was likely used as a decorative item, possibly in jewelry.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faiencemetal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276579 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1126 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547611 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.