Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
String of beads, barrel and one acacia Middle KingdomAbadiya
Description
String of barrel beads and one acacia. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 2030–1640 B.C. Amethyst, carnelian, hematite. L. 17 cm (6 11/16 in.). From: Cemetery G, Tomb G6, Abadiya, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1898–99. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Connections
Found at
Abadiya
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116432875 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 99.4.30 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 558480 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.