Amulet of a cow?
Description
Amulet, cow (?). Ptolemaic Period, 306–30 B.C. Faience. From: Dendera, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations, 1897–98. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898.
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 dark, faience amulet shaped like a recumbent cow (or cow-associated form), shown in profile.
The object is a small, matte dark faience piece photographed against a light background. It appears as a stylized animal figure lying or crouched, with a rounded body and a distinct head projecting to the left; the neck and back are simplified into smooth contours. Surface decoration is minimal and worn/obscured, with no clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or text visible on this image. No explicit features identifying a specific deity (beyond the general cow symbolism) are unambiguously readable from the provided view.
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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.