Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Ba-bird amulet Late Period
Description
Amulet, ba-bird. Late Period, Dynasty 26–29, 664–380 B.C. Gold sheet. l. 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.) × h. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.). Excavation: Egyptian Antiquities Service excavations. Subject: Birds. Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Connections
Materials
Gold Sheet
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116275823 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 23.10.21 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 561525 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.