Bead, broken
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.
Small broken faience bead fragment with a turquoise-blue glazed surface and a rounded/flattened rectangular body.
The image shows a single small object centered on a light background. It appears to be a bead fragment: a short, flattened, rectangular-to-semi-rectangular piece with one corner worn/removed, suggesting breakage. The surface has a turquoise-blue to blue-green glaze with darker mottling and weathering, consistent with faience. No drilling hole, decoration, hieroglyphs, or cartouche are clearly visible at this resolution. The edges are slightly rounded and chipped, supporting the catalogue description of a broken bead. No other text (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) is visible.
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281149 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.6.85 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 558072 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.