Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Lion 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, ancient Egyptian artifact shaped like a djed pillar.
The object depicted is a small representation of a djed pillar, an ancient Egyptian symbol of stability. It appears to be made of stone or faience. The artifact's design is simple, featuring the characteristic columns stacked vertically to form the base and the capital, typical of djed pillars often associated with the god Osiris.
decorative
unknown
good
Deities
Osiris
Materials
unclear
Connections
Deities
Osiris
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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.