Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Hepy, String of periwinkle shells
Description
Shell (Marine), Nacre, Pearl
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.
String of ancient beads arranged in a loose shape.
The image depicts a string of uniformly shaped, light-colored beads, possibly made from shells or small stones. The beads are arranged in a simple, continuous strand, suggesting it may have been a necklace or decorative item. There is no visible decoration or patterning on the beads themselves.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
shellstone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281276 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.143 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546446 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.