Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Hepy, String of beads
Description
Gold, carnelian
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 spherical red beads.
The artifact is a necklace crafted from uniformly spherical red beads, interspersed with some possibly gold-colored beads. The composition suggests it may have been used as a piece of personal adornment. The style is simplistic and unadorned, which is typical for many forms of ancient jewelry.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
unknown
Connections
Found at
Lisht North
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281262 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.157 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546451 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.