126 beads from broad collars

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Displayed with similar beads (see 30.8.288, 45.4.13-related), this group of elements from one or more ancient broad collars consists of 35 large white flower petals (3of which are not shown here), 8 blue-green cornflowers, 1 blue lotus blossom, 2 white lotus lotus blossoms, 24 red dates, 30 small blue-green dates (14 of which are not shown here), and 25 daisies.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art