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Khnum (?) amulet

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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

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small turquoise-blue faience Egyptian amulet depicts a seated god-like figure with a human body and a ram-headed or animal-faced head, holding one arm/hand close to the chest.

The object is a standalone, molded faience amulet viewed in three-quarter profile. It shows a compact, upright seated figure with a rounded animal head featuring large eyes and a short snout; the head may be ram-related but the specific deity cannot be confirmed from the image alone. The figure’s torso is nude or minimally detailed, with incised/painted-like lines suggesting musculature and a belt or kilt at the waist. The arms appear to be held close to the body, with one hand/forearm raised near the upper chest. Along the base there is a short row of small marks that resemble cursive or hieroglyphic sign fragments, but the individual signs are not clear enough to identify reliably. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. Overall finish and color are consistent with turquoise-blue faience, with minor wear and chips visible at edges.

decorative Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (as catalogued); exact sub-period unclear from image alone. good
Deities unknown (ram/anime-faced god-like figure; possibly Khnum as catalogued but not confirmable from visible details)
Materials faience (turquoise-blue glazed)
Signs inscription/sign group (unreadable fragments) ×4
Visible text "Unreadable short sign fragments near the base (approx. 4 small marks); no clear transliteration possible from the provided image."

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.

Connections

Deities Khnum
Materials Faience

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)
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.