Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Dragonfly 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 blue-green faience amulet in the shape of a winged figure.
The artifact is a faience amulet depicting a winged shape, likely representing a symbolic or protective form. The piece is pierced in the center for suspension, suggesting it was used as a pendant or adornment. The surface shows minor wear consistent with age, and its overall form is simple yet elegant, typical of Egyptian symbolic jewelry.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251811 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.514 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544099 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.