Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab New KingdomAsasif
Description
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, ca. 1550–1458 B.C. Glazed steatite. L. 1.5 cm (9/16 in.). From: Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Carnarvon excavations, 1911 (?). Subject: Scarabs. Credit: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Unnamed hieroglyphic-style inscription; individual sign readings unclear at this resolution.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247640 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.614 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 552414 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.