Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Amulet: Crown of Lower Egypt

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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.

Faience artifact depicting an ancient Egyptian headdress or crown.

The artifact is a faience object designed to resemble an intricately shaped headdress or crown fragment. It is mounted on a gold-colored stand. The object features smooth curves, ridges, and detailing common to representations of deity crowns or royal headdresses in ancient Egyptian art.

decorative unknown good
Materials faience

Connections

Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413923 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.1822 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545368 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.