Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Necklace of beads and amulets
Description
Faience, paste Shell (Marine), Nacre, Pearl Wood Gold
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.
An ancient Egyptian necklace composed of beads and a central pendant.
The image shows a string of beads forming a necklace with varied shapes and sizes typical of ancient Egyptian jewelry. A central pendant appears prominent, suggesting decorative or amuletic significance. The beads appear to be made from a mixture of materials, each contributing to the necklace's aesthetic and potential symbolic meaning.
decorative
unclear
good
Materials
stonefaience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280278 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.273 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546917 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.