Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Horus Falcon Amulet
Description
Steatite
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 statuette depicting a falcon, possibly representing the god Horus.
The artifact is a carefully sculpted falcon seated upon a small pedestal. The precision of the carving, particularly in the detailing of the feathers and the stern gaze, suggests a high level of craftsmanship often associated with depictions of deities. The falcon's stance is upright, with wings folded against its body, a common style for depictions of Horus, the sky god. The material appears to be stone, potentially a form of dark basalt or another hard stone, polished to a smooth finish.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389447 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.160.144 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546156 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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