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

Plaque with winged Re-Harakhty

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Glazed steatite

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 artifact depicting a seated deity figure.

The object is a small cylindrical artifact made from faience, featuring a seated figure that appears to be a deity. The style is typical of amulets with smooth surfaces and rounded edges. The figure is detailed in a frontal view, with notable emphasis on the headdress and posture indicative of divine representation.

decorative New Kingdom good
Deities unknown
Materials faience

Connections

Materials Faience
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.