Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Lion-headed goddess suckling the king
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 faience amulet depicting a deity in an embrace with a child figure.
The image shows a faience amulet with a blue-green glaze, featuring a deity believed to be associated with protection or nurturing, cradling a smaller child figure. The deity has a distinct headdress and stylized features typical of Egyptian iconography. The piece is delicately crafted with intricate details, despite its small size, suggesting it was an important item for personal devotion or protection.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408474 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.75 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329853 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.