Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Lion amulet
Description
Faience
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 turquoise faience amulet in the shape of a hieroglyphic symbol.
This is a small turquoise faience amulet fashioned in the shape of a hieroglyphic sign. The amulet features a string threaded through a hole, indicating it may have been worn as a necklace or used as part of larger adornments. The craftsmanship shows the typical use of faience material, providing a glossy finish and bright coloration.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
heart
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280151 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.418 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547028 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.