Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
String of tubular beads
Description
Faience
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 spiral of cylindrical beads, likely a necklace or bracelet.
The image depicts a spiral arrangement of thin, cylindrical beads which may form a necklace or bracelet. The beads display a range of earthy tones, indicating possible weathering or patination over time. The uniform shape and size suggest a consistent crafting technique, characteristic of ancient jewelry.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
unknown
Connections
Found at
Saqqara
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116277305 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.7.97 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547096 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.