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Broad Collar of Wah

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 40.3.2. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 40.3.2
Find spot: Southern Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12
Reign: reign of Amenemhat I, early
Date: ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
Date range: 1981 BCE – 1975 BCE
Materials: ['faience', 'linen thread']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat I, early, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Faience, linen thread. H. 34.5 cm (13 9/16 in.); W. 39 cm (15 3/8 in.). From: Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), Mummy, in wrappings on chest, Southern Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940.

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.

Turquoise-blue beaded broad collar with a U-shaped profile, composed of tightly packed small faience-like segments arranged in concentric rows.

The image shows a broad collar (or broad-neck ornament) formed from many small, rectangular/segmented beads strung together into dense horizontal rows that fan out from a central U-shaped opening at the top edge. Two large rounded ends sit at the upper left and upper right, each attached to a hanging loop/cord segment; additional loose fiber/cord is visible near the top center. The border includes a perimeter of thicker bead/connector elements around the outer edge. No clear painted or carved figures are visible, and no legible hieroglyphs are present on the collar surface in this view. The beading appears to be turquoise-blue, consistent with faience; multiple strands/threads are visible connecting the elements, consistent with linen thread (though the fiber material cannot be independently confirmed from the image alone).

decorative Middle Kingdom (catalogue ground truth); Middle Kingdom style beaded broad collar good

Materials turquoise-blue faience-like beads/segmentsthread/cord (likely linen thread, though fiber type not confirmable from image alone)

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Found at Asasif

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