Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Pectoral depicting Isis nursing infant Horus in the marsh surrounded by protective genii
Description
Glazed stone?
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.
An ancient Egyptian artifact depicting a figure seated beneath a sun disc with attendant figures.
The artifact is a rectangular relief likely made of limestone, featuring a central seated figure adorned with a sun disk on their head. The figure is framed by radiating lines suggesting sunlight, and flanked by symmetrical, attendant figures. The composition and iconography are indicative of religious significance, possibly representing a deity.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414558 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.2.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546103 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.