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Imseti Amulet

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 89.2.313. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 89.2.313
Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26–30
Date: 664–30 B.C.
Date range: 664 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['faience']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

Amulet, Imseti. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, Dynasty 26–30, 664–30 B.C. Faience. H. 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889.

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.

A small, dark, elongated Egyptian amulet-like object photographed against a light background, with a faint incised/raised figure and marks on its front.

The image shows a vertically oriented, finger-like amulet with a rounded top and a broader base. The surface is dark gray to black with lighter speckling consistent with abrasion or residue. Faint dark lines/relief are visible on the upper portion, forming what appears to be a seated or standing figure with internal detailing, but the exact iconography is not fully legible at this resolution. No clear cartouche or royal titulary is visible. There are no readable hieroglyphs, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text can be distinguished.

religious Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (consistent with catalogue; specific dating not independently verifiable from image alone) poor

Deities Imseti (iconography not fully legible; identification inferred from catalogue title only)

Materials dark faience-like surface (catalogue states faience; image cannot confirm material with certainty)

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Deities Imsety

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116246298 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 89.2.313 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 552869 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)

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Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.