Hand amulet
Description
Amulet, hand. Late Old Kingdom–Early Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 8–12, ca. 2150–1950 B.C. Carnelian. H. 0.5 × W. 1.3 × D. 0.3 cm (3/16 × 1/2 × 1/8 in.). Said to be from: Aswan (Syene), Southern Upper Egypt. Subject: Hands. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1959.
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.
Small orange-gold carved amulet shaped like a human hand (hand-like form with thumb and curled fingers).
The object is shown against a plain light background. It appears as a compact, vertically oriented, orange to amber translucent stone carving with a simplified human hand silhouette: a protruding thumb on one side and the remaining fingers indicated by shallow contours. The carving has smooth surfaces with minor abrasions/scuffs and a slightly darker recessed line work at edges. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or readable inscriptions are visible on the photographed surface. No visible metal mounts or cord attachments are shown in the image. The material appearance is consistent with a small hard stone carving such as carnelian, though the image alone cannot conclusively determine the mineral.
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116430951 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 59.103.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 555584 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.
- 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.