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Taweret Amulet

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 13.180.7. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 13.180.7
Find spot: Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12, late–17
Date: ca. 1850–1700 B.C.
Date range: 1850 BCE – 1700 BCE
Materials: ['lapis lazuli']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

Taweret amulet. Late Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, late–17, ca. 1850–1700 B.C. Lapis lazuli. H. 1.4 cm (9/16 in.); W. 0.6 cm (1/4 in.); D. 0.7 cm (1/4 in.). From: Tomb MMA 840, pit in portico, Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1912–13. Subject: Taweret. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913.

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 stone amulet shaped like the female hippopotamus Taweret, with a drilled suspension hole near the upper torso/head area.

The image shows a compact, roughly naturalistic amulet figure rendered in a deep blue color with lighter mottling and some reddish-brown accretion or wear spots. The top forms a rounded head with a slight crest/back contour. The left and right sides suggest the stylized posture of Taweret, with a central torso tapering downward. A single circular perforation is clearly visible near the upper middle of the figure, likely for threading on a cord. The lower end is rounded/flattened, suggesting the lower body of the deity. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible in this view. The surface appears worn but intact overall.

religious Late Middle Kingdom (as catalogued) good

Deities Taweret

Materials blue-stone, consistent with lapis lazuli color (exact identification not fully confirmable from image)

Connections

Found at Asasif

Deities Taweret

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116247925 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 13.180.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 552188 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.