String of 15 hexagonal beads

String of 15 hexagonal beads

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These hexagonal beads are made of glass and colored to imitate semi-precious stones. Here the opaque green glass may represent beryl.

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.