String of 8 kidney-shaped seeds
Description
Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom, Dynasty 17–18, ca. 1580–1479 B.C. Seeds, linen string. Length of string 72.5 cm (28 9/16 in.). From: East of Pabasa, Burial B44, neck of mummy, Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1918–19. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1919.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Photograph shows a thin light-colored cord looped into a necklace with eight small, kidney/bean-shaped dark-and-light alternating beads/seeds attached.
The image depicts a simple string necklace laid against a neutral gray background. The cord forms a large loop, with two loose ends visible at the top. Along the lower portion of the loop sit eight small, ovoid/“kidney”-shaped elements. Each element appears dark brown to reddish-brown with lighter bands or patches, resembling dried seeds or seed-like beads. No carved/painted hieroglyphs, cartouches, or readable text are visible. No deities or royal iconography are present; the object is purely a grouping of seed-like forms on a string.
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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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