Taweret Amulet
Description
Amulet, Taweret. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Faience. H. 2.6 cm (1 in). From: Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1911–12. Subject: Taweret. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1911.
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 small blue-green faience amulet shaped like a standing female hippopotamus with a raised arm and visible head profile.
The image shows a single, thumb-sized Egyptian amulet rendered in a blue-green to dark turquoise glossy material. The figure is upright and human/animal-anatomy combined: a rounded head with a distinct snout and ears suggests a hippopotamus, while the body is modeled as a standing female deity figure. One arm appears lifted toward the torso or chest; the other arm is drawn downward along the side. The back and sides are intact, with worn/broken edges in places, and no suspension loop is clearly visible in the provided view. No cartouches, names, or readable hieroglyphs are present on the object surface or in the surrounding field of the photograph.
About this record's data
- 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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