Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Ded-Amulet
Description
Caption: Ded-Amulet, 664–30 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 13/16 x 5/8 x 7/16 in. (4.6 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1278E. (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.
A blue faience djed pillar amulet.
The artifact is a small djed pillar amulet made of blue faience, a material commonly used in ancient Egyptian jewelry. The djed pillar is depicted with horizontal bands representing its distinctive structure. It is often associated with stability and was typically used in funerary contexts.
funerary
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Osiris
Materials
faience
Signs
djed
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1278E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117843 tier-2
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