Son of Horus (Imseti) from Bead Net
Description
Amulet, Son of Horus. Third Intermediate Period–Late Period, Dynasty 21–26, ca. 1070–525 B.C. Faience. H. 7.4 × W. 1.3 × Th. 0.5 cm (2 15/16 × 1/2 × 3/16 in.). From: Tomb of Roma (TT MMA 835), Khokha, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1926.
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 blue faience figure carved in the shape of a human/ancestral deity standing upright, with head in profile and a long, narrow body.
The object is a vertically oriented, elongated blue faience amulet-like figurine. The figure’s head is shown in right-facing profile with a defined facial nose and mouth; the hair or headdress is suggested by a smooth rounded back and incised/paint-like dark lines near the head. The body is narrow and tapers slightly, with layered, incised bands across the midsection suggesting garment or decorative bands. A small perforation/indentation is visible near the top of the head (likely for attachment to a bead net or cord). The bottom end is flat with a small chipped area and a small light speck/feature at the base. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or readable text are visible; the dark markings appear to be part of the modeling/decoration rather than legible inscriptions.
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- 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.