Djed Pillar Amulet
Description
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664–30 B.C. Faience. H. 8.2 × W. 2.5 × Th. 1.3 cm (3 1/4 × 1 × 1/2 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small Egyptian amuletic object shaped like a djed pillar on a rectangular base, shown against a plain studio background.
The image depicts a vertical, column-like amulet resembling a djed pillar: a broader lower stem narrows slightly upward and is topped with a rounded finial. The midsection shows stacked transverse bands or “waist” elements that visually read as the djed’s horizontal segments. The object’s surface is greenish-blue with mottling consistent with glazed ceramic/ faience, and it sits on a modern-looking rectangular support base. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible on the object in this view. No clear deity names or royal names can be identified due to the absence of readable inscriptions.
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.
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