Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Cat with kittens 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 faience figurine of a seated animal with prominent ears, possibly representing a deity.
The artifact is a vibrant blue faience statuette featuring a seated animal with prominent ears, which might symbolize a deity or a divine creature. The figure is detailed and well-preserved, with smooth surfaces and intricate molded features typical of Egyptian craftsmanship. The style suggests it may have been an amulet or a votive offering.
religious
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235366 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.40 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546247 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.