Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Amulet: Figure of Taweret
Description
Faience, blue
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.
Statue of an Egyptian deity depicted as a standing figure with a lioness head.
This artifact is a small statue representing an Egyptian deity, likely Sekhmet, due to the lioness head and anthropomorphic body. It is crafted in a traditional Egyptian style, displaying simplified features and a standing posture typical of deific representations. The surface has a blue-green glaze, typical of faience, and there is no evident inscription.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413911 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 04.2.366 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545345 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.