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Harpokrates Amulet

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Description

Third Intermediate Period–Ptolemaic Period, 1086–30 B.C. Faience. H. 9.2 × W. 2.2 × D. 2.8 cm (3 5/8 × 7/8 × 1 1/8 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A turquoise-blue faience amulet depicts a nude child-like god standing frontally with a side lock of hair, wearing a tall crown or headdress and holding a small scepter-like element.

The image shows a small, molded faience figure standing upright against a plain background. The figure is nude and portrayed with a slim body, arms held close to the sides, and a facial expression characterized by a downcast gaze and dark inlaid/painted features around the eyes. A tall, conical or tube-like crown/headdress rises above the head, and a small, curved element appears near the head/upper body. In the lower body area, small incised or molded details suggest the genitals and abdominal contours typical of child-deities/amulet figures. The entire surface is covered by a glossy blue-green glaze with areas of wear/scattered speckling consistent with faience. No clearly legible hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible on the figure or its background.

religious Third Intermediate Period–Ptolemaic Period (per catalogue); exact attribution unclear from image alone good
Deities Harpokrates (Horus the Child) (catalogue subject; facial/crown type suggests but exact identification not fully confirmable from image)
Materials faience (glazed ceramic)

Connections

Deities Harpocrates
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)
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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.