Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Khonsu pendant

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Description

Gold

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 statue depicting a falcon-headed figure with a sun disk, likely representing a deity.

The artifact is a gold-colored figurine of a falcon-headed figure sitting on a base, adorned with a sun disk and a uraeus on its head. It is finely detailed, showcasing Egyptian artistic style characterized by precise sculpting and a symmetrical composition. The figure likely symbolizes a deity related to the sun or royalty.

religious Ptolemaic excellent
Deities Ra-Horakhty
Materials gold

Connections

Deities Ra-Horakhty
Materials Gold

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389491 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 65.194.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545874 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.