Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Design Amulet, Pyramidal Back with Horizontal Piercing, Device showing Two Falcons Flanking what is meant to be an Ankh Sign
Description
Serpentinite
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.
An ancient Egyptian artifact with inscriptions.
This artifact appears to be a small, rounded object, possibly a scarab or amulet, displaying clear hieroglyphic inscriptions. The surface is dark with the hieroglyphs highlighted in a contrasting lighter color, suggesting careful engraving. The style suggests a simple, yet precise composition, characteristic of Egyptian symbolic artifacts.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Signs
reed ×3
Visible text
"nfr"
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413566 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.981 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544406 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.