String of beads

String of beads

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These amethyst beads were found in the surface sand, or radim, of the North Pyramid site. When they first arrived at the Museum, they were strung in two groups (15.3.544 and 15.3.545), each 26cm long, and later joined into a single string.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.