Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Necklace of queen Neferu
Description
Faience, semi-precious stones, gold, silver
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.
This is an ancient Egyptian beaded necklace with a variety of colorful beads.
The artifact is a necklace composed of small cylindrical beads interspersed with larger, round, and oval beads in a range of colors including blue, orange, purple, and red. The beads appear to be made of materials such as glass or faience, commonly used in ancient Egyptian jewelry. The necklace is stringed together in a simple, yet elegant manner, showcasing the craftsmanship of the period.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
glassfaience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244468 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 25.3.246 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545317 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.