Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Butterfly 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 blue-green faience amulet depicting a stylized vulture.
The artifact is a small amulet made of blue-green faience, representing a stylized vulture. The wings are outspread, with incised lines indicating feathers. The piece shows signs of weathering with surface spots of discoloration and wear, but retains its overall shape. Such amulets were commonly used for protection and as symbols of royalty in ancient Egypt.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251822 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.1394 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544094 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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