Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Hepy, String of beads
Description
Lapis lazuli
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 strand of blue beads forming a necklace.
The image depicts a simple necklace composed of uniformly shaped blue beads, possibly made of faience or another stone. The beads are strung together in a continuous loop, without any visible clasp or ornamentation. The style appears minimalist, focusing on the uniformity and smooth texture of the beads.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
unknown
Connections
Found at
Lisht North
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281263 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.155 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546450 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.