Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Shu amulet
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 blue faience figurine of a kneeling deity holding an object above its head.
The artifact is a small faience figurine depicting a kneeling deity, characterized by ancient Egyptian artistic style. The figure is depicted in a frontal pose, holding a rectangular object above its head. The use of blue faience is notable, along with the stylized features typical of deities in ancient Egyptian artifacts.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
unknown
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281765 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.24 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546232 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.