Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Plaque of Amenemhat II
Description
Glazed steatite
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.
An amulet featuring a cartouche with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small, oval-shaped amulet made from a faience material, common in Egyptian artifacts. The front depicts a cartouche enclosing several hieroglyphic signs, including a prominent eye symbol and dangling amulets. The style is simplistic yet typical of protective amulets, meant to confer protection to the bearer. Some painted red details are visible, indicating the use of additional color on the artifact.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Eye of Horus
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243554 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.17 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545699 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.
- 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.