Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Taweret 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 turquoise-blue figurine depicting a standing figure with a lioness head.
The artifact is a faience statuette representing a lioness-headed figure, likely a deity, standing upright with a long mane and an elongated body. The figurine is mounted on a small rectangular base, with the surface displaying a glossy finish typical of faience material. The attention to detail in the mane and posture suggests skilled craftsmanship.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244416 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 04.2.365 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545344 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.