Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
String of beads
Description
Lapis lazuli, travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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 string of four ancient beads, two made of white material and two of blue stone.
The image depicts a simple string of beads composed of two white beads and two blue beads, possibly made of lapis lazuli. The beads are spherical and polished, likely used for jewelry or decoration. The blue beads show slight mottling, typical of lapis lazuli, with a deep blue color and specks of white and gold.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
lapis lazuliunknown white stone
Connections
Materials
Lapis Lazuli
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279768 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 99.4.54 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547310 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.