Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Large Ball Bead
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 spherical, green and brown artifact, likely made of faience.
The artifact is a small spherical object with a surface displaying a mixture of green and brown colors, indicative of faience material. It appears to be evenly round with some signs of wear and discoloration, suggesting age. The surface shows some cracking, indicative of its antiquity and exposure over time.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280473 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.382 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546984 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.