Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
String of Beads with Feline-head Amulets
Description
Gold, Egyptian blue
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 strand of ancient Egyptian beads, featuring alternating colors.
The artifact is a strand of beads composed of alternating brown and turquoise-colored beads. The turquoise beads are disk-shaped, while the brown beads are spherical. The composition suggests a decorative use, possibly as jewelry or an adornment. The beads appear uniform in size and symmetrical in arrangement, hinting at a carefully crafted design.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faiencewood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276566 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1364 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547617 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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