Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Bastet 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 figure of a seated deity with a lioness head.
This is a small, faience figure depicting a seated deity with the head of a lioness. The figure is blue in color, typical of faience, and shows the deity holding an object in its hands. The craftsmanship is detailed, capturing the characteristic features of the lioness deity often associated with protection and ferocity.
religious
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
faience
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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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