Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Menat Amulet
Description
Caption: Menat Amulet, 664–332 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 11/16 × 1 1/8 × 1/4 in. (6.9 × 2.9 × 0.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1209E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Stone artifact with hieroglyphic inscriptions and a cartouche.
The artifact is a stone piece with vertical hieroglyphic inscriptions, featuring a prominent cartouche near its rounded base. The inscriptions suggest it may belong to a royal context, possibly identifying a pharaoh. The style and carving methods appear consistent with traditional Egyptian craftsmanship.
royal
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Signs
cartouche
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1209E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117780 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.