Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Cowrie shell bead Middle KingdomDahshur

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 26.7.1338a. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

+ 2 more images

Accession: 26.7.1338a
Find spot: Dahshur, Memphite Region approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12
Reign: reign of Senwosret III
Date: ca. 1878–1840 B.C.
Date range: 1878 BCE – 1840 BCE
Materials: ['gold']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
At source: View original →

Cite & export

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Cowrie shell bead (26.7.1338a). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/30929

JSON →

Description

Jewelry element, cowrie. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret III, ca. 1878–1840 B.C. Gold. length of shell 3.7 cm (17/16 in). Probably from: Dahshur, Memphite Region. Excavation: de Morgan excavations, 1894–95. Credit: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

Connections

Found at Dahshur

Materials Gold

About this record's data

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.