Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Shu 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 figure of the god Shu kneeling and holding a solar disk.
This artifact is a faience figurine depicting the ancient Egyptian god Shu, characterized by his distinctive posture of kneeling while supporting a solar disk above his head. The style is typical of Egyptian representation, with a focus on symbolic gesture. Notable features include the detailed facial features and the prominent solar disk.
religious
Late Period
good
Deities
Shu
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244413 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 04.2.372 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545347 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.