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Amulet of Kneeling Nephthys

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.815E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.815E
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Third Intermediate Period or Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 25, or later
Date: ca. 760–656 B.C.E. or 305–30 B.C.E.
Date range: 760 BCE – 656 BCE
Materials: ['Gold']
Height: 2.5 cm
Width: 1.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Amulet of Kneeling Nephthys, ca. 760–656 B.C.E. or 305–30 B.C.E.. Gold, 15/16 x 3/8 in. (2.5 x 1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.815E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Small gilded metal amuletic element showing a central kneeling figure in relief, with neighboring sign-like shapes along the sides.

The image shows a thin, gold-colored object photographed against a light fabric background. It appears to be a strip or broken fragment with relief workmanship: a central, human-like kneeling figure is depicted in shallow relief, while surrounding areas contain what look like engraved panels or blocky, hieroglyph-like elements. No full-format text is clearly readable at this resolution; any incised marks appear partial or worn. There are no visible cartouches or royal titulary. The object is too fragmentary to confirm the exact divine identification with certainty, though the catalogued subject is an amulet of kneeling Nephthys.

religious Third Intermediate Period or Ptolemaic Period (uncertain; based on catalog ground truth only) fragmentary

Deities Nephthys (kneeling figure; identification uncertain from image alone)

Materials gold-colored metal (likely gold)

Signs incised/relief signs or panels flanking the kneeling figure (exact sign unclear) ×3

Connections

Found at Saqqara

Deities Nephthys

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.815E tier-2
BKM-Object 117401 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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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.