Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
String of lentoid beads
Description
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 string of blue faience disk beads.
The artifact is a strand of uniformly sized blue disk beads made from faience, a material commonly used in ancient Egyptian jewelry. The composition is simple and repetitive, highlighting the uniformity and potential utility of the beads. The blue color is notable, as it often symbolized fertility and life in Egyptian culture.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415510 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.8.69a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548522 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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