Daisy Bead
Description
Bead, daisy. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Faience. Diam. 1.5 cm (9/16 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911–12. 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 turquoise-blue faience bead shaped like a rounded rosette/flower with a dark purple central core or inlaid area.
The object appears to be a small faience bead with a scalloped, flower-like perimeter. The surrounding body is turquoise-blue with surface wear and small brownish abrasions or grime. In the center there is a dark purple circular area with an irregular cracked or chipped boundary, suggesting either a darker core/inlay, firing variation, or damage exposing an inner material. No piercing hole, suspension point, or detailed manufacturing marks are clearly visible at this resolution. The image does not show any hieroglyphs or non-Egyptian scripts, nor any discernible figures or iconography that would indicate a deity. No cartouche or royal name is present or legible.
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.