Amulet of a goddess, possibly Nephthys
Description
Third Intermediate Period–Ptolemaic Period, ca. 1086–30 B.C. Faience. H. 2.1 × W. 0.5 × D. 0.9 cm (13/16 × 3/16 × 3/8 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020.
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.
Small greenish faience amulet with an applied figure on the left side and a vertical rectangular body with a drilled suspension hole.
The object is a compact, rectangular-section faience amulet rendered in a green glaze with mottled wear. One side shows a raised figure in profile facing left, with a narrow neck and a head shape that could belong to a goddess-like form, while the reverse/adjacent field is less modeled. A single vertical piercing is visible near the right half of the body for suspension. No clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscriptional text are visible in the provided image; the surface includes small pits/abraded points likely from manufacturing/age rather than deliberate text. The exact goddess identity cannot be confirmed from the image alone, though the form is consistent with a typical raised symbolic/goddess amulet silhouette.
Connections
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.
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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.