Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Bead with Cartouche of Shebitqo Third Intermediate Period
Description
Bead, Shebitqo. Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 25 (Kushite), reign of Shebitqo, ca. 707–690 B.C. Faience. L 3.6 × Diam. 3 cm (1 7/16 × 1 3/16 in.). Possibly from: Nubia. Credit: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Recessed cartouche with vertically arranged hieroglyphs; individual signs not reliably legible in the provided image.
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116432778 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.320 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 557940 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.