Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Horus amulet in the shape of a falcon with the double crown
Description
Faience
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A blue faience amulet depicting a falcon-headed deity.
The artifact is a finely crafted amulet made of blue faience, representing a falcon-headed deity. It is detailed with a crown and intricate feather patterns. The composition suggests careful attention to stylization and symmetry, typical of small-scale Egyptian religious artifacts.
religious
New Kingdom
excellent
Deities
Horus
Materials
faience
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