Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
String of beads
Description
Carnelian, garnet, quartz, glazed steatite
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 single-strand necklace composed of beads in varying shades of brown and orange.
The artifact is a necklace made from a series of round, smooth beads strung together. The beads appear to range in color from deep brown to orange, with a few lighter accents. The string is simple, and the necklace is likely used as a decorative item. The beads show uniformity in size and shape, suggesting careful craftsmanship.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279769 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 99.4.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547303 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.