Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Globular Beads with Caps, Strung as a Necklace
Description
Faience, gold Gold
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A necklace made of spherical beads, alternating between brown and blue hues.
The artifact is a necklace composed of approximately 55 spherical beads. The beads alternate in color between brown and a light blue or turquoise shade, suggesting the use of faience, a common material in ancient Egyptian jewelry. The alternating pattern and rounded shapes emphasize symmetry and balance, characteristic of decorative art from various periods in Egyptian history. The overall condition of the necklace is good, with no apparent missing or broken beads.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faiencegold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243112 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 68.136.26 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545941 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.
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