Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Neit Amulet

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Lapis lazuli

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, vertically oriented amulet figure carved in a blue stone with worn details, resembling an amulet form associated with the goddess Neit.

The object appears as a narrow, elongated amulet with a rounded/cylindrical body and a thicker, skirt-like or collar-like element around the upper portion. The surface is heavily worn, with mottled blue areas consistent with lapis lazuli and losses at edges and extremities. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible in the provided image. The figure does not clearly show distinctive attributes that would unambiguously identify a person or deity beyond the general amulet-like shape.

religious Late Period (per catalogue; image does not contradict, but cannot confirm from style alone) fragmentary
Deities Neit
Materials blue stone (consistent with lapis lazuli as catalogued)

Connections

Deities Neith

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116245358 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.2084 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 553811 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.