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Spacer-bead with images of divinities and a king

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Description

Faience

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 rectangular turquoise-blue faience spacer-bead panel bearing incised/raised Egyptian-style figures in alternating darker bands.

The object appears as a small, rectangular spacer-bead fragment or face with a glossy turquoise-blue surface. Within a raised border, there is a stylized vertical motif set against darker incised fields, including wedge-like and arching elements that resemble Egyptian iconographic forms. The central area contains a repeating arrangement of figures or symbols, but the details are too compressed to reliably identify specific deities or any royal cartouche. No readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The imagery and Egyptianized forms are consistent with a bead designed to depict divinities and a king, though no unequivocal royal name is legible in the provided image.

decorative Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue); iconography consistent but not securely datable from image alone. good
Deities unknown (divinities depicted; not identifiable from image resolution)
Royals unknown (king depicted; no legible cartouche/name)
Materials faience (turquoise-blue glazed surface)
Signs Egyptian-style iconographic figure elements (incised/relief; not legible enough for specific sign attribution) ×6

Connections

Deities Atum
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116408652 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.101 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329879 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.