Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · figurine

Taweret

Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), acc. 42.216. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 42.216
Dynasty: 21st-25th Dynasty
Date: 10th-8th century BCE (Third Intermediate-early Late Period)
Date range: 1000 BCE – 700 BCE
Materials: ['smoky quartz']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Taweret (42.216). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/219968

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Description

<p>This fragmentary Taweret is missing the head and feet. Taweret stands with arms pressed to her body; there are no attributes.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.216' rel='external'>Taweret</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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 carved Egyptian figure stands in a dressed/posed manner, shown in close-up with light-colored surface and red pigment or paint traces in the background. The form suggests a protective/female deity statue, consistent in outline with a Taweret amulet/figure.

The image shows a single carved object photographed against a plain background. The figure has a broad, upright body with arms lowered toward the front and hands/forearms rendered near the torso. The head and upper body area are partially worn or abraded, but the overall silhouette resembles a standing protective goddess figure. Faint decorative carving and pigment traces (notably red in the upper recessed area) are visible, suggesting remnants of applied color. No clear hieroglyphic inscription, cartouche, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is legible on the visible surfaces. While smoky quartz is the catalogue-listed material, the visible sheen and translucency are not specific enough in this image to confirm or deny the material with certainty; the surface looks like a stone/rock carving, with possible polish and abrasion.

religious unclear (likely late/ancient Egyptian carved cult object, but exact period cannot be determined from this single photo) fragmentary

Deities Taweret

Materials stone (smoky quartz per catalogue; not verifiable with certainty from image alone)

Connections

Deities Taweret

Cross-references (2)

Walters-AccNum 42.216 tier-2
Walters-id 129 tier-2

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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.