Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Amulet in the form of a head of an elephant
Description
Serpentinite, bone
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 stone artifact depicting the head of an animal with two round eyes.
The artifact is carved from stone, featuring a rounded form with two distinct circular indentations that appear to represent eyes. The style is abstract and simplistic, lacking detailed facial features. The composition suggests it is a representation of an animal's head, possibly ceremonial or symbolic in purpose.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279896 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 59.101.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547235 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.