Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
String of 1 squatting ape, 5 Ba birds, and 2 Horus amulets
Description
Lapis lazuli, amethyst, feldspar
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 various colored stone amulets.
The artifact is a necklace featuring small amulets made from materials such as amethyst and possibly faience, threaded together. The amulets are shaped into various forms, possibly representing deities or symbolic figures, crafted in a style that suggests careful workmanship. The variety of colors and materials gives the necklace an ornamental look.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
amethystfaience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414095 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.155 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545635 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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.