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Bead with figure of Harpokrates

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Description

Bead amulet. Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 100 BC–100 AD. glass, gold foil. H. 2.9 × W. 1.3 cm (1 1/8 × 1/2 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.

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 oval bead with a raised central figure in gold-toned material against a light background.

The image shows a single, vertically oriented oval bead. Its surface is predominantly gold-toned with a recessed/engraved or relief central figure resembling a child/standing deity silhouette with a simplified headdress/lock-like forms. No surrounding beads, stringing elements, or attachment holes are clearly visible at this resolution. The surrounding field is plain and there are no legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or non-Egyptian scripts visible. The figure is the primary decorative element, consistent with a small iconographic bead.

decorative Ptolemaic or Roman Period (consistent with catalogue attribution; specific dating unclear from image alone) good
Deities Harpokrates (iconographic figure; identification inferred from catalogue title, not confirmable visually at this resolution)
Materials gold foil (or gold-toned surface/foil)

Connections

Deities Harpocrates

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280752 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.2476 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 558842 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.