Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Ring
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 blue amulet or jewelry piece depicting a frog and human figure.
The artifact is a vibrant blue amulet, likely made of faience, with detailed depictions of a frog and a human figure. The style and composition suggest skilled craftsmanship, common in ornamental objects designed to offer protection or convey symbolic meanings in ancient Egypt. The use of blue faience indicates not only aesthetic choices but also symbolic notions associated with fertility, rebirth, or water.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414651 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.61 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546266 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.