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.
An ancient Egyptian ceramic object in the shape of a hieroglyph.
The image depicts a ceramic artifact shaped like a stylized hieroglyph. The composition suggests it may have been part of a larger inscription or used as an amulet. The object has a smooth surface with a hole suggesting it could be suspended or attached.
hieroglyphic only
unclear
good
Materials
ceramic
Signs
reed leaf
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.