Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Necklace of Graduated Ball Beads
Description
Faience, linen cord
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 deep blue beads, likely part of a necklace.
The artifact consists of a collection of uniformly spherical deep blue beads, likely made from faience. Strung together with a simple thread, the necklace features a consistent color and shape throughout, suggesting careful craftsmanship. The simplicity and elegance of the design are characteristic of personal adornments.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245330 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 40.3.15 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545122 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.