Necklace of Ball Beads and a Vase Amulet
Description
Faience, anhydrite Blue faience beads; blue marble amulet
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 small spherical beads.
The image depicts a necklace made of uniform, small spherical beads arranged in a simple strand. The beads appear to be made of a material suggesting stone, possibly faience or another common ancient Egyptian substance. The design is understated, aligning with typical jewelry styles seen in personal adornments from various periods in Egyptian history. The necklace seems complete and well-preserved, noting the absence of any clasp or ornamental focal point apart from the tagged bead at center, which might be a modern label.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280365 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.252 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546901 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.