Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Nineteen Drop Beads here Strung as a Necklace
Description
Gold, sard
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 elongated, tapered beads.
The artifact is a necklace formed by a series of elongated, tapered beads that are arranged in a loop. The beads exhibit a smooth texture and seem to be crafted with precision. The variation in the colors of the beads suggests the use of different materials or treatments. The design is simple yet elegant, characteristic of decorative artifacts.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282244 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 68.136.22 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546030 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.