Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Apotropaic Wand
Description
Hippopotamus ivory
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 carved wooden artifact featuring a series of engraved figures and symbols.
The artifact is an intricately carved piece of wood, possibly used as a ceremonial object. It features a series of engraved figures, including animals and possibly deities, as well as various hieroglyphic symbols. The craftsmanship suggests attention to detail characteristic of religious or ritual artifacts. The arrangement of figures and hieroglyphs forms a continuous narrative or symbolic representation across the surface.
religious
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Anubis
Materials
wood
Signs
Anubis
Bird ×2
Reed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243449 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.218 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545740 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.