Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Frog Amulet
Description
Porphyry
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 small faience figure of a frog, likely an amulet or decorative item.
The artifact is a stylized representation of a frog, crafted from faience with a mottled brown and white surface. The figure is small and appears to be designed for decorative or symbolic use, perhaps as an amulet. The craftsmanship is indicative of Egyptian decorative art, with an emphasis on the natural form of the frog.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116251764 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.1143 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544106 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.