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

Frog Amulet

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Description

Chlorite (1994)

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.

The artifact depicts a small statuette of a frog.

The image shows a carved statuette of a frog, made of a dark, possibly stone material. The sculpture is smooth with minimalistic features, focusing on the form and posture of the frog. It appears to be a simple yet symbolically significant piece, often associated with fertility and transformation in Egyptian culture.

decorative unknown good
Materials stone

Connections

Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116251794 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.1928 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544104 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.