String of beads
Description
Beads, string. Meroitic Period, 30 BC–364 AD. Gilt glass, faience. l. 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.). From: Cemetery 1, Grave 1065, Faras, Lower Nubia, Nubia (Sudan). Excavation: University of Oxford Excavations in Nubia 1911–1912. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1913.
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 photographed string of small segmented beads arranged in a necklace-like loop, with an attached thread and a small handwritten/label tag at the top.
The image shows a circular loop of numerous small, cylindrical or barrel-shaped beads strung on a thin light-colored cord. The beads appear in alternating pale cream/yellowish and slightly darker or patterned bands, suggesting composite decoration rather than plain monochrome. At the upper portion of the loop, a small red/orange rectangular tag with handwritten characters is attached to the cord; the writing is not clearly legible at this resolution. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are visible on the object itself. There are no discernible cartouches, royal names, or deity iconography; the object is purely small-bead material. The background is a neutral light surface suitable for catalog photography.
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- 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.
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