Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Thoth 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 artifact depicting an abstract form with a circular hole.
The artifact is a small sculpture made from a light-colored stone, characterized by its abstract form with smooth, rounded edges. The most notable feature is a circular hole through the center, suggesting it may have been worn as a pendant or amulet. The style is simplistic, lacking intricate details, which indicates it might have been used as a symbolic or utilitarian object.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
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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.
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