Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Fertility figurine
Description
Faience, blue-green glaze
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 faience amulet depicting a figure with fish-like scales.
The artifact is a small faience amulet with a figure, possibly representing a goddess or mythical being. The figure's body is adorned with turquoise fish-like scales, suggesting an association with water or fertility. The style is typical of Egyptian faience work, showcasing craftsmanship in the glaze and shaping. The figure stands on a small base, with a worn surface indicating aging.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281265 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 34.1.125 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546436 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.