Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Falcon Amulet
Description
Lapis lazuli
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small blue faience statue of a falcon.
The artifact is a carefully crafted faience statue depicting a falcon, likely representing the god Horus. The color is a rich blue, typical of Egyptian faience. The composition is simple, focusing on the bird in a naturalistic pose, suggesting its use as an apotropaic or religious amulet.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408118 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329777 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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