Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Shrine amulet of Nefertum
Description
Faience, green
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 ancient Egyptian amulet with a depiction of a deity.
The artifact is a small amulet made of glazed faience, depicting a figure that appears to be a deity. It has a rectangular, column-like shape with inscriptions on the top and bottom edges. The figure is carved in a recessed area on the front face. The style and form suggest it was used for religious or protective purposes.
religious
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244394 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 05.3.206 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545355 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.