Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Design Amulet, a Double-Falconhead Shank Pierced Transversally on the Back, Device showing Two Hares Head-to-tail
Description
Rock crystal
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.
Small ancient Egyptian artifact resembling a duck or bird with detailed features.
The artifact is a small sculptural depiction of a duck or bird, crafted from a pale, translucent material, possibly alabaster. The style is simplistic yet detailed, capturing the essence of the bird in a compact form. The piece is smoothly polished, and it features a central drilled hole, which may suggest its use as a lid or stopper. The wear around the hole indicates frequent use.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
alabaster
Connections
Materials
Alabaster
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413573 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.35 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544411 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.