Son of Horus (Duamutef) from Bead Net
Description
Faience
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 blue faience amuletic figure shaped like a phalliform/vertical staff with a rounded head and an inset suspension hole near the top.
The object is photographed against a plain light background. It is predominantly turquoise-blue with darker speckling and weathering consistent with glazed faience. The top has a rounded, slightly widened head area with a small circular perforation (likely a suspension/bonding hole). Below the head, the figure tapers into a long vertical body; along the body there appears to be shallow incised/painted decoration or text-like strokes, though individual signs are not clearly legible at this resolution. The bottom ends in a flat/rounded base with another small circular perforation. There is no clearly readable hieroglyphic, cartouche, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text visible in the image; any marks are too indistinct to confidently identify specific signs.
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.