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

Hepy, String of beads

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Description

Amethyst, carnelian, gold, green faience, lapis-lazuli

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.

The image shows a necklace-like string of small colored beads with a central purple stone and green and red beads, ending in gold-colored end caps.

The artifact appears as a single strand of small, barrel/rounded beads strung together. Most beads are light green (faience-like) with several red oval beads spaced along the strand. There are also a few light blue/indigo beads and one central purple bead (possibly amethyst). Two gold-colored pointed/leaf-like terminals/end caps are visible at the left and right ends of the string. No readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscriptions are visible on the photo. No figures of deities or royal names are depicted; the object is purely jewelry/ornamental.

decorative Middle Kingdom (as catalogued) good
Materials green faience (light green beads)red stone/ceramic (red beads)blue stone/ceramic (blue beads)amethyst-like purple beadgold (end caps)

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281275 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 34.1.147 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546447 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.