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Cat Amulet

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Description

Amulet, cat. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, Dynasty 26–30, 664–30 B.C. Faience. H. 3.7 × W. 1.1 × D. 2.1 cm (1 7/16 × 7/16 × 13/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Cats. Credit: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904.

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 faience amulet shaped like a seated cat, shown in profile with painted/green-blue glaze details and a simplified face and tail.

The object is a three-dimensional figurative amulet depicting a cat sitting upright. The cat’s head has pointy ears and a stylized facial area with dark line/paint suggesting eyes and muzzle. The front paws are positioned near the lower body; the tail extends along one side, indicated by a raised ridge. The overall surface is turquoise/green with darker speckling and wear consistent with a glazed ceramic/ faience surface. Near the bottom, a reddish-brown marking is visible but does not clearly resolve into readable hieroglyphs. No legible Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic scripts are clearly visible on the image; the reddish marking is too indistinct to excerpt confidently. No royal names or deities can be confirmed beyond the general cat-votive iconography.

decorative Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (consistent with catalogue; exact dating unclear from image alone) good
Materials faience/glazed ceramicturquoise-green glaze

Connections

Materials Turquoise-Green Glaze

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116436820 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 04.2.92 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 560634 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.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.