Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Falcon head, fitting from furniture or shrine
Description
Cupreous metal
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 bronze cobra amulet on a stand.
The artifact is a small bronze amulet depicting a cobra. It is mounted on a modern stand for display. The design is simple yet stylized, featuring the iconic hooded flair of a cobra in a frontal pose. The surface shows some patination typical of aged bronze.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
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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.