Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Ibex-Shaped Design Amulet Inscribed With A Crocodile and A Fish
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 blue faience amulet of a reclining lion.
The artifact is a blue faience amulet depicting a lion in a reclining position. The details include a mane and eyes outlined to emphasize the lion's features. Such amulets were common in ancient Egypt, often used for protection and strength.
decorative
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413441 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.50 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544071 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.