Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Bull amulet
Description
Pale blue 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 small blue faience amulet depicting a bull.
The artifact is a compact faience amulet colored in a bright blue, shaped into a representation of a bull standing on a rectangular base. The bull is stylized with attention to details such as horns and musculature, commonly associated with sacred or symbolic representations in Egyptian art. A loop at the top suggests it could be worn as a pendant.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281791 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.27 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546234 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.