Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Falcon amulet
Description
Lapis lazuli
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 collection of small Egyptian amulets in various shapes and materials.
The image depicts a variety of Egyptian amulets, each fashioned into distinct shapes such as birds, a scarab, and possibly a hippo. They are made from materials like blue faience, green stone, and red carnelian. The craftsmanship suggests they were used for protective or decorative purposes, typical of Egyptian symbolic art.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faiencestonecarnelian
Signs
bird ×3
scarab
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414878 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.132 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546823 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.