Amulet in the Form of Ptah-Sokar
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.
The image shows a small string of blue and green faience or glass-like beads arranged in a decorative row, with no clearly legible inscription visible.
Across the frame is a linear assemblage of small figurative and/or cylindrical beads in alternating shades of deep blue and lighter blue, plus a few greenish beads toward the right. The forms appear bead-like rather than a single worked amulet figure; no distinct seated god silhouette (e.g., Ptah-Sokar) or clear hieroglyphic carving is visible at this resolution. The surface has a glossy, vitrified look consistent with faience/glass; lapis-lazuli is not directly verifiable from the image alone. No cartouches, royal names, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text can be confidently identified.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116432918 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 04.18.28 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 558514 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.