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

Amulet in the Form of Ptah-Sokar

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.

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.

unclear Middle Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; not visually confirmable from the photo) good
Deities Ptah-Sokar (catalogue title; not clearly identifiable in the image)
Materials glossy blue vitrified surface (faience/glass-like)green vitrified/glazed beads

Connections

Found at Abydos
Deities PtahSokar

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.