Daisy Bead
Description
Bead, daisy. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Faience. W. 1.3 cm (1/2 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1910–11. Subject: Daisies. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small, round faience bead with a raised, petal-like rim and a central darker circular core or fill.
The image shows a single small bead photographed against a white background. The bead has an overall circular form and a scalloped/petal-like outer edge resembling a flower rosette. A central circular zone is visible in a slightly darker yellow-brown color, surrounded by a lighter translucent/opal-like material. There are small manufacturing surface irregularities and speckling consistent with faience. No drilling hole, inscriptions, or iconographic figures are clearly visible at this resolution. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text appears.
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- 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.
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