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.
Afaience amulet depicting a stylized, winged form.
The image shows a faience amulet in the shape of a stylized, winged object. The amulet is turquoise-blue with dark accents, and it features a central hole likely for suspension on a necklace or similar adornment. The piece exhibits a symmetrical design with a textured surface resembling feathers or wings, commonly found in protective amulets.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251816 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.512 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544096 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.