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

Beadwork apron of Senebtisi

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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 vertical beadwork apron/strap-like textile of faience and bead strands with a patterned band at the top, suspended from a rectangular painted/inscribed element.

The image shows a tall, hanging apron composed of many parallel bead strands. Along the very top is a horizontal patterned band with alternating light and dark green motifs. Below it, numerous long rows of small beads (including green/black/blue-tinted beads and dark (brown/black) bead segments) hang down in a dense curtain. At the upper center there is a rectangular element with dark vertical symbols/marks and a small overhanging suspension loop; no clearly legible full hieroglyphic text is visible at this resolution. A small orange-red bead or ornament appears on the right side of the apron near the mid-to-lower area. Overall the object is beadwork with painted/colored elements on the top central plate; no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

decorative Middle Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth) good
Materials beads (light and dark green)faience-like beads in blue/black tonespainted top elementmetal or wire-like supports holding bead strands
Signs rectangular/painted area with vertical dark marks (unreadable)

Connections

Found at Lisht

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116297781 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 08.200.29a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 692410 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.