Taweret amulet
Description
Amulet, Taweret. Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 100 BC–100 AD. Mosaic glass. l. 1.9 × w. 1.3 cm (3/4 × 1/2 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Taweret. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.
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 Egyptian-style amulet shaped like a mammiform/animal form, filled with multicolored mosaic-glass inlays.
The image shows a small, roughly teardrop/figure-shaped amulet photographed against a plain light background. The surface is covered with a mosaic-like pattern of small blue, turquoise, and yellow glass tesserae set into a dark body. The form has a rounded head area and a raised element on one side that could be stylized limbs/ears or wings; the lower portion tapers to a pointed end. No clear carved relief hierarchy or surrounding iconographic elements are visible at this resolution. There are no legible hieroglyphs, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
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