Bead with figure of Harpokrates
Description
Bead amulet. Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 100 BC–100 AD. glass, gold foil. H. 2.8 × 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 gold-toned bead/cap with an incised or impressed figure in profile, showing a crowned deity-like head and a secondary figure/shape beneath.
The object appears as an oval or slightly rounded rectangular bead with a shiny gold-colored surface. Within the center is an impressed relief figure: a head with a distinctive headdress/crown is shown in vertical orientation, and beneath the head are curved lines that resemble either a second element of the figure or decorative/inscription-like strokes. The surrounding surface is smooth and reflective, with no clearly legible hieroglyphs or Greek characters visible at this image resolution. No cartouches are visible. No mounting or stringing elements are clearly shown. The image does not provide enough detail to confirm specific iconographic attributes beyond a general deity-like figure.
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280749 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.2477 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 558843 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.