Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Plaque
Description
Blue glazed steatite
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.
Faience amulet depicting an ancient Egyptian symbol.
The image shows a small square faience amulet with a design depicting a stylized symbolic representation, possibly a god or an emblematic object. The amulet is glazed in a turquoise color typical of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material. The composition is simple, consisting of a central motif with symmetrical elements, bordered by lines suggesting stylized wings or leaves. Such artifacts are often associated with protection or religious significance.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
reed ×2
unknown_symbol
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280414 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.685 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547018 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.