Taweret amulet
Description
Amulet, Taweret. Old Kingdom–First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 8–11, ca. 2110–2030 B.C. Ivory. H. 2.3 × W. 1.1 × D. 0.4 cm (7/8 × 7/16 × 3/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1965.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small carved Egyptian amulet in the form of a standing figure with a large legible carved loop/shaft hole at the head/upper body area.
The image shows a small, light-colored carved object photographed against a plain light background. The amulet depicts a standing female-presenting figure shown from the front, with stylized, simplified features and a flared headdress or hair mass at the top. A circular perforation/loop hole is clearly visible near the upper portion of the figure (around the head/neck area), and a second perforation is visible lower on the body (around the pelvic/upper leg area). The carving includes incised/raised contours along the torso and skirt-like lower portion, but there are no readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other text visible on the surface. The overall subject matches the catalogue’s identification as an amulet dedicated to Taweret in broad typological terms (standing, protective female-associated figure), though the exact Taweret iconographic details are not fully confirmable from this resolution.
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.