Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Necklace with pendants
Description
Blue faience, beryl, carnelian, hematite
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 greenish-blue beads with a few larger beads of varying colors.
The artifact is a necklace featuring numerous small, cylindrical greenish-blue beads made likely of faience. Interspersed are several larger, differently colored beads, possibly made of carnelian and other stones, providing contrast and interest to the piece. The necklace likely served as decorative jewelry, showcasing craftsmanship and aesthetic preference of its period.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
faiencestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245522 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.276 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545092 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.