Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Garment of Senebtisi

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

Description

Light and dark green, blue and black faience, paint

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 richly decorated Egyptian garment panel composed of dense rows of beaded/chain-like elements in green and dark tones, with a small gold-toned cartouche-like element at the top.

The image shows a hanging textile/garment constructed from many vertical strands ending in bead-like terminals. The left and right borders and upper sections display light/dark green repeating patterns, while the central area has a grid of darker beaded elements. A rectangular, gold-toned top element contains a vertical, bracket-like motif and dark markings resembling painted/inscribed decoration; however, no fully legible hieroglyphic text is clear from the image. A single orange/red painted or faience-like element appears near the lower-middle right. Overall, the surface appears painted and inlaid with colored faience or glass-bead components, consistent with a jewelry-like garment panel. No clear deities are identifiable, and no royal cartouche name is clearly readable.

decorative Middle Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth) good
Materials light and dark green faience or glass beadsblue and black faience or glass beads (dark/blue-toned beads visible)paint (on/within decorative elements)
Signs cartouche-like decorated frame with vertical markings (not clearly legible)

Connections

Found at Lisht
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.