Home › Browse › MET › Object 61635
Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

String of beads

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Beads, string. Meroitic Period, 30 BC–364 AD. Carnelian, glass. L. 14.7 × Dia. 0.8 cm (5 13/16 × 5/16 in.). From: Cemetery 1, Grave 181, Faras, Lower Nubia, Nubia (Sudan). Excavation: University of Oxford Excavations in Nubia 1911–1912. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1913.

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 necklace made of small, rounded beads strung on a thin cord.

The image shows a circular arrangement of beads forming a “string of beads” necklace. The beads are predominantly small, oval/rounded, and mottled light blue/grey with reddish-brown and occasional darker/black-speckled dots. Several beads near the top appear slightly larger and show different mottling consistent with mixed bead types. At both ends, the cord is visible and extends upward, suggesting it is strung through or tied off. No carved imagery or inscriptions are visible; the decoration is limited to bead color/spotting rather than hieroglyphic engraving. The material appearance is consistent with small stone/glass beads rather than metal or faience plaques, though exact identification of carneli an vs glass is not directly verifiable from the image alone.

decorative Meroitic Period (per catalogue) good
Materials beads (likely carnelian and/or glass; exact composition not fully confirmable from image)thin cord/string

Connections

Found at Faras

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116438516 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 13.125.54 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 561733 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.