Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Taweret amulet
Description
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 small carved ivory figurine, possibly depicting a stylized human or deity figure.
The artifact is a small carved figurine made from ivory, featuring a stylized form. It is slightly abstract, making it difficult to identify the subject definitively. There are two noticeable holes in the figure, which may indicate it was used as a pendant or amulet. The surface is smooth, showing signs of wear.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
ivory
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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.