Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Falcon amulet

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Description

Faience (green)

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 falcon-shaped amulet made of green faience.

The artifact is a small amulet depicting a falcon, crafted from green faience. It exhibits a simplified form with minimal detailing, characteristic of ancient Egyptian amulets intended for protection or religious significance. The amulet's surface is smooth, suggesting it was well-preserved or recently restored.

decorative New Kingdom excellent
Materials faience

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280361 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 16.10.251 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546900 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.