Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Three large spherical beads
Description
Clay (unfired), pigment
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.
Three ancient weights or net sinkers with a modern scale cube for size comparison.
The image shows three roughly spherical artifacts with pierced centers, suggesting they may have been used as weights or net sinkers. The items appear to be made of stone and exhibit areas of red pigment. Accompanying the artifacts is a modern scale cube for size reference. The overall composition is simple, focusing on the artifacts against a plain background.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415011 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.182.7a–c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547112 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.