Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Falcon-headed crocodile amulet
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 turquoise-blue figurine of a crocodile with a sun disk on its head.
The artifact is a small, detailed faience figurine depicting a crocodile with a sun disk on its head, which is commonly associated with the deity Sobek. The style and craftsmanship indicate meticulous attention to surface detail, with a smooth, glossy finish typical of faience artifacts. The artifact may have been used for religious or decorative purposes.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Deities
Sobek
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413730 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1989.281.95 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544909 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
- 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.