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Child god (Harpokrates?) amulet

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Description

Amulet, Harpokrates. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C. Faience. H. 5 × W. 1.6 × D. 1.4 cm (1 15/16 × 5/8 × 9/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Gods. 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 turquoise-blue faience amulet/figurine shaped as a small nude child deity standing upright, mounted on a gold-colored display stand.

The image shows a small, stylized human figure with a large head and simplified facial features, standing front-facing on a rectangular base. The figure is nude (wearing only a short wig or hair mass at the back/side of the head) and holds a secondary small form or attribute against the torso (details are indistinct). The surface is turquoise/greenish-blue with worn highlights consistent with a ceramic-glaze/ faience object. No clearly legible hieroglyphs are visible on the figure itself or on the stand/base. A gold-colored metal looped support rises behind the figure and a rectangular gold-colored base plate supports it. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text.

religious Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (as given by catalogue; exact dating not confirmable from image alone) good
Deities unknown child god (possibly Harpokrates per catalogue; not explicitly identifiable from image)
Materials faience (turquoise/greenish-blue glaze)gold-colored metal (display stand/loop)

Connections

Deities Harpocrates

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281786 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 44.4.29 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546236 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.