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

Dragonfly amulet

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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 stone artifact shaped like a cross or an abstract figure.

The artifact appears to be a small, stone object resembling a cross or a stylized, abstract figure with extended arms and a protruding lower section. It is likely carved from a single piece of stone and exhibits a simple, utilitarian style with no visible inscriptions or detailed carvings. The surface is rough and uneven, suggesting age or weathering.

unclear unknown good
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Lisht North
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116251813 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.1.285 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544097 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.