String of black faience beads with encrustations
Description
Necklace, beads. Middle Kingdom–Early New Kingdom, Dynasty 12–18, ca. 1981–1295 B.C. Blue and black faience. l. 48.5 cm (19 1/8 in). From: Cemetery, Debris, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–22. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A single necklace/strand shown laid out, composed of small blue and dark beads with occasional speckled or encrusted highlights.
The image shows a curved string of small, rounded beads against a light fabric background. The beads appear predominantly blue with darker (black or deep-blue) speckling/encrustations visible on their surfaces. No individual bead openings or string material are clearly visible beyond the bead line itself. There are no readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscriptions present in the image, and no iconography suggesting deities or royal figures.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281448 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.1274 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 557490 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.
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