Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Butterfly amulet
Description
Faience, paint
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 faience amulet.
The image depicts a small amulet made of blue faience, possibly in the shape of a floral or abstract motif. The artifact shows signs of wear and surface erosion, typical of ancient objects. The blue glaze is partially worn revealing the underlying material.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251819 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.513 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544095 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.