Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Harpokrates 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 small turquoise faience figurine of an ancient Egyptian deity.
The image depicts a finely crafted faience figurine of an Egyptian deity, standing with traditional attributes. It features the crown typical of deities and exhibits a blue-green glaze. The figure is highly stylized, typical of Egyptian craft, with clear detailing in the headdress and facial features. The posture is rigid, highlighting formal artistic conventions.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408369 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.52 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329820 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.