Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Khnum (?) amulet Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Description
Amulet, Khnum?. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C. Faience. H. 6.6 × W. 4.7 × D. 2.4 cm (2 5/8 × 1 7/8 × 15/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1944.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Unreadable short sign fragments near the base (approx. 4 small marks); no clear transliteration possible from the provided image.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281768 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.23 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546231 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.