Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Hepy, 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 necklace composed of oval-shaped beads, predominantly in earth tones.
The image depicts a complete necklace made up of uniformly oval beads that vary in color from dark brown to light tan. The beads are evenly spaced and appear to be smooth, suggesting they have been polished. One bead features a distinct red inscription, setting it apart from the others.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
stonepossibly faience
Signs
unknown
Visible text
"Unclear red markings on one bead"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281279 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.140 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546444 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.