String of Beads
Description
Beads, string. Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period, 2nd century BC–2nd century AD. glass, gold foil. L. 43 cm (16 15/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.
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.
The image shows a necklace-like string consisting of many small, uniformly spaced beads arranged in a circular loop.
A thin, flexible string forms a closed loop around the frame. The beads are small, cylindrical to barrel-shaped, and appear light-colored (likely glass) with occasional warmer/golden reflections suggestive of metallic foil or gold-colored accents. No figure, cartouche, or hieroglyphic text is visible; the focus is solely on the bead strand. The overall presentation matches the catalogue description of a “String of Beads.”
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280793 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.3228 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 558905 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.