Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"

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 green-blue faience inlay showing a standing Horus falcon perched on a gold-hieroglyph sign, with detailed feather patterning and a raptor head facing left.

The object depicts an Egyptian falcon (Horus-type) rendered in a blue-green glaze over a light faience body. The bird stands on a small circular base supported by two vertical “stems” or side posts. The head has a slightly open beak and round eye; the neck and body show scale-like and feather-pattern decoration in darker and lighter blue/green tones. The wings and tail are laid out in a naturalistic spread, with repeated feather bands along the wing edges and tail. The base area includes raised linear elements consistent with an attached hieroglyphic element; however, the specific hieroglyph for “gold” (nḥb) is not clearly readable from this image resolution. No cartouche or royal titulary is visible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present. No clear incised hieroglyphic signs beyond the inlay’s sculpted “gold” sign elements are legible.