Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Amulet of a goddess, possibly Nephthys
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 small, greenish artifact resembling an ancient Egyptian amulet.
The artifact is a petite, upright figure crafted in a greenish material likely resembling faience. It appears to depict a stylized figure with some anthropomorphic elements along one side. The simplistic and compact style suggests it was designed as an amulet or charm for personal or ritual use. The piece is punctuated by a hole, indicating it could be worn or attached to another object.
decorative
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116408878 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.10 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329940 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.