Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Heart amulet
Description
Green stone
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 carving of an ancient Egyptian canopic jar lid depicting a human head.
This artifact is a stone lid from a canopic jar, carved to resemble a human head. It features simplistic facial features, including etched eyes and a mouth, indicative of typical ancient Egyptian artistic styles used in funerary contexts. The lid's small, rounded top may have been used to easily lift it. The piece lacks elaborate decoration, consistent with utilitarian objects from tombs.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244382 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1797 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545364 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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