Sweret Bead on Gold Wire
Description
Torque?, Sweret bead. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. Carnelian, gold. Diam. of wire 10 cm (3 15/16 in.) ; L. of bead 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); diam. 1 cm (3/8 in.). From: Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1920.
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.
A gold wire bracelet-like loop with a single red carnelian bead (sweret) near one end.
The image shows a thin, bright yellow-gold wire bent into a near-circular loop. At the top of the loop there is a single rectangular/rounded red bead with polished surfaces, consistent with a carnelian sweret bead. The wire ends are slightly uneven and extend outward on the left and right, indicating it may be incomplete or the wire was photographed with slack. No carved, incised, or painted hieroglyphs are visible anywhere on the wire or bead. No cartouches, royal names, or deity iconography appear. No text in Greek, Coptic, or Arabic is visible.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276534 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.8.113 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547641 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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