Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Amulet in the form of the head of an elephant
Description
Chlorite
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 resembling a stylized animal head.
The artifact is a small stone carving that appears to depict a stylized head of an animal, possibly a cobra. The carving is simplistic in style, with minimal detailing to suggest features such as eyes and nostrils. The surface of the stone is smooth and uniformly colored, suggesting it may have been polished.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415129 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 59.101.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547236 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.