Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Double-flute player
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 small faience amulet depicting a figure of a male deity with distinctive headgear.
The artifact is a blue-green faience amulet showing a male figure seated and holding a staff or scepter. The figure wears a crown or headgear that includes stylized horns, a common attribute in representations of certain Egyptian deities. The amulet shows signs of wear but retains much of its original detail, including visible traces of the original coloring.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
possibly Bes
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281997 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.6.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546115 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.