Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Seal amulet in the shape of hedgehog
Description
Egyptian 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.
A small faience sculpture depicting an animal, possibly a hedgehog.
The artifact is a small, finely crafted faience sculpture of an animal with a distinct, textured back that resembles a hedgehog. The creature is shown in a side profile with a detailed snout and body. The surface is smooth and glazed, typical of faience work, with a greenish-blue hue that was common in Egyptian artifacts.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251837 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.882 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544086 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.