Shell pendant or bead
Description
Pendant, shell. Predynastic Period, ca. 3850–2960 B.C. Shell. From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916.
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, polished conch-shell form with one smooth face and a ribbed/striated interior edge, shaped like a pendant or bead.
The object is photographed against a plain light background. It appears as a single shell piece, likely a conch/cowrie-type fragment, with a curved overall profile. One broad side shows a smoother exterior surface with scattered small discolorations or speckling. Along one edge there is a scalloped/irregular contour and, on the opposite side, a clearly ribbed or fluted interior section with closely spaced ridges. No fastening hole, suspension perforation, or clear drilled opening is visible in this image (though the angle/resolution may obscure it). No carved decoration or readable inscriptions are present.
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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.