Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Cowroid bead
Description
Lapis lazuli, 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.
A blue stone with a decorative metallic border.
The artifact appears to be a decorative object, possibly a jewelry piece, featuring a smooth, polished blue stone set within an ornate metal border embellished with a bead-like pattern. The style suggests an emphasis on bold colors and fine metalwork, typical of decorative objects.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
stonemetal
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276578 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1127 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547612 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.