Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Tubular bead

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 11.151.759e. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 11.151.759e
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 13
Date: ca. 1802–1640 B.C.
Date range: 1802 BCE – 1640 BCE
Materials: ['faience']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Tubular bead (11.151.759e). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/218150

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 13, ca. 1802–1640 B.C. Faience. L. 0.8 (5/16 in); Diam. 0.4 cm (3/16 in). Excavation: MMA excavations, 1906–07. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.

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 turquoise-blue cylindrical (tubular) bead with a suspension cord attached, accompanied by a beige/cream inventory label with handwritten numbers.

The image shows a single small tubular bead, rectangular in side view due to cropping but clearly cylindrical in profile, colored turquoise/blue with slight wear and darker edges. A purple/dark cord loops around the bead and extends to the right where it is tied off. Beside or attached near the cord is a beige paper label with handwritten red/orange digits and a second line of smaller handwriting; no clear hieroglyphic script is legible. No iconography, deities, or royal cartouches are visible. The bead appearance is consistent with glazed faience typical for Egyptian beads. Overall the object is intact and in good condition with minor surface discoloration from use/age.

decorative Middle Kingdom (as catalogued; exact dating unclear from image alone) good

Materials faience (glazed turquoise-blue)paper labeltextile cord

Signs inventory/handling handwriting (non-hieroglyphic; exact characters unclear)

Visible text "Handwritten digits on beige label; exact text unclear (appears to include something like '11/15159' and additional smaller numbers)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Handwritten digits on beige label; exact text unclear (appears to include something like '11/15159' and additional smaller numbers).

Connections

Materials Faience Textile Cord Paper Label

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116305339 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 11.151.759e tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 639379 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)

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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.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.