Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Votive Counterweight (Menit) with Name of Queen Ahmose Nefertari
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 blue faience wand or amulet with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a blue faience wand or amulet. It features a decorative circular top with a central symbol resembling a floral or star pattern. Below the circular top, the main body of the artifact is inscribed with vertical columns of hieroglyphs. The style is typical of Egyptian faience, known for its bright blue hue and smooth finish. Notable features include the precise hieroglyphic carvings and the intact floral motif.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
djed pillar
ankh
was scepter
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235284 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.152 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548467 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.