Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Fly Amulet
Description
Hippopotamus ivory
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 stone artifact in the shape of a fly with detailed features.
This artifact is a stone representation of a fly, meticulously carved with attention to anatomical details. The sculpture features distinct wings and a segmented body, capturing the natural form of a fly. The style is simplistic yet effective, typical of small decorative or amuletic objects in ancient Egypt.
decorative
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244530 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1285 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545263 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.