Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of King Khaneferre Sebekhotep IV
Description
Glazed steatite
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A faience scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an ancient Egyptian scarab made of faience, featuring intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions on its flat side. The composition suggests possible royal or religious connotations, common in amulets and seals. The glaze preserves a blue-green hue, indicative of faience production techniques used in ancient Egypt.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab
reed
an offering table
Connections
Materials
Faience
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- 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.
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