Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Foundation Deposit Plaque
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 small faience amulet with hieroglyphs inscribed on it.
The artifact is a rectangular-shaped faience amulet with a smooth surface and a turquoise glaze. It features an inscribed cartouche with hieroglyphs, including recognizable signs such as a beetle. The style is characteristic of small personal amulets that were commonly used for protection or religious devotion in ancient Egypt.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389552 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.3.257 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544728 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.