Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Bracelet of Wah
Description
Faience, linen thread Cord or Thread
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.
Four strings of blue faience beads are displayed with small labels.
The image shows four strings of tubular blue faience beads, each labeled with a unique number. The beads are uniform in shape and appear to be threaded onto strings made from a natural fiber. The color of the beads ranges from light to dark blue, indicative of typical faience glaze. These types of beads were commonly used in jewelry and amulets in ancient Egypt.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245049 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 40.3.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545174 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.