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

Hepy, found scattered

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Description

Faience, whitish, originally green glaze (?)

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 elongated beads forming a necklace.

The image depicts a necklace composed of elongated, oval-shaped beads, which seem to be made of faience. The beads are evenly shaped and arranged in a continuous loop, suggesting a decorative style typical of ancient Egyptian jewelry. The coloration appears to be a pale tone with some greenish tinge, characteristic of aged faience.

decorative unknown good
Materials faience

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281280 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 34.1.138 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546443 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.