Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Poppy-Bead Necklace
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.
The image depicts two strands of ancient Egyptian beads.
The image shows two strands of beads featuring a mix of shapes and colors, including reds and blues. The beads are crafted in distinct, intricate forms, showcasing typical ancient Egyptian design elements used for jewelry. Their composition implies aesthetic and symbolic significance in ancient culture.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282006 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 40.9.26 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546091 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.