Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
String of Disk Beads
Description
Caption: String of Disk Beads, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Faience, 3/16 x 19 1/2 in. (0.5 x 49.5 cm) Barrel-shaped bead: Diam. 3/16 x 9/16 in. (0.4 x 1.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.240.
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 composed of various colored beads.
The image depicts a necklace made of small, flat, disk-like beads of various colors including red, blue, and beige. The beads are strung together tightly, creating a continuous loop. The necklace appears simple in design, yet it is colorful and likely served as decorative or symbolic jewelry.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faiencemaybe other materials
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.240 tier-2
- BKM-Object 119399 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.