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Amulet, Ptah on crocodiles

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Description

Late Period, Dynasty 26–30, 664–332 B.C. Faience. H. 5.1 × W. 3.2 × D. 2 cm (2 in. × 1 1/4 in. × 13/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915.

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.

An object resembling a small turquoise-blue faience amulet sculpture depicts a nude male deity sitting cross-legged, with a bearded/curly coiffure and a crocodile-like base beneath the figure.

The image shows a small, hand-sized turquoise-blue faience (glazed ceramic) artifact photographed against a neutral grey background. The central figure is a seated, human-like male deity with a distinctive wig or curly hair and a visible beard/cheek lines. The deity sits with legs folded, arms positioned in a holding posture across the torso. The lower portion includes a molded base that appears to be made of multiple crocodile forms or a single crocodile-like support (head/teeth shapes are not fully sharp), consistent with an iconographic theme of crocodiles supporting the god. No clear cartouches, royal names, or legible hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible on the surface in this photo. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.

religious Late Period (as in the museum catalogue). good
Deities Ptah (as suggested by the catalogue title; facial iconography not clear enough to confirm independently)
Materials faience (turquoise-blue glaze)

Connections

Deities Ptah
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116386433 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.43.20 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 552775 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.