String of beads
Description
Beads, string. Predynastic, Badarian, ca. 4400–3800 B.C. Glazed steatite. L.46.5 cm (18 5/16 in). From: Tomb 3107, Mummy, from neck (?), Matmar, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE/Brunton excavations, 1931. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1932.
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.
Photograph of a double strand of small rectangular/cylindrical beads forming a necklace-like loop, shown against a plain background.
The image shows two adjacent strands of closely spaced beads, each strand forming a large loop. The beads are small, uniform, and appear rectangular to short biconvex in profile, with visible dark and light banding consistent with stone/glaze variation. There are slight irregularities in spacing and thickness along the strands. No fastening element, pendants, or visible inscription are apparent. No human figures, deities, or royal iconography are depicted.
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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.