Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Design Amulet with Loop on the Back, Device of Two Children shown in Opposite Vertical Orientations

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Description

Faience

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 round ancient Egyptian faience amulet with hieroglyphic designs.

The artifact is a round faience amulet featuring raised hieroglyphic symbols. The design is simple yet precise, showcasing traditional ancient Egyptian symbolic artistry. The glyphs appear to be crafted in a style consistent with decorative amulets, with a glazed blue-green finish typical of faience objects.

decorative unknown good
Materials faience
Signs unknown ×2

Connections

Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413569 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 07.228.123 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544408 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.
  • 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.