Bastet amulet
Description
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C. Faience. h. 5.8 cm (2 5/16 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 blue-green faience amulet shaped as a female feline deity figure, shown standing with the head of a cat and hands held to the chest.
The object is a vertically oriented faience amulet with a stylized feline-headed female figure. The figure stands upright on a small base and wears a tight, painted/relief-like garment pattern across the torso and hips. One hand is raised toward the chest while the other is also held close, suggesting a worship or blessing posture. The head has pointed cat ears and a defined muzzle; facial features are simplified and slightly worn. The surface is covered in a turquoise-blue glaze with darker speckling/losses. No surrounding text field is visible in the provided image, and there are no clear cartouches. The overall form strongly corresponds to an amulet representing Bastet, though exact iconographic markers (e.g., specific column/inscription or a clear sistrum/menat detail) are not distinctly readable at this resolution.
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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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