Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Hippopotamus amulet
Description
Limestone (pink)
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, reddish-brown ceramic vessel shaped like a hippopotamus.
The artifact is a ceramic vessel, designed in the form of a hippopotamus, with a simplistic and stylized form. The reddish-brown color suggests it may have been made from Nile silt clay. The vessel's surface has a smooth finish, and there are minimal decorations, emphasizing its form rather than surface design. The vessel has a small spout on the top and seems intact.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
ceramic
Connections
Materials
Ceramic
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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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