Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Necklace of Hapiankhtifi
Description
Black obsidian ball beads; silver caps Silver
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 piece featuring beads made from a dark material.
The image depicts a string of beads forming a necklace, with the beads made of a dark, glossy material. The beads are spherical and some are interspersed with smaller, lighter-colored beads that may show signs of corrosion. The composition is simple and might have been used for decorative or ceremonial purposes.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
unknown
Connections
Found at
Meir
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281564 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.183.13a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546287 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.