Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Child god (Harpokrates?) 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 small blue-green amulet depicting a standing figure.
The artifact is a faience amulet showing a figure with detailed features, standing on a gold-colored base. The figure is depicted with a distinctive headpiece and a sidelock of youth, often associated with child deities or royal children. The object is intricately crafted, suggesting a decorative or religious purpose.
decorative
Ptolemaic
excellent
Materials
faiencegold
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.