Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Inscribed for Sebekhotep VI (?)
Description
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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab seal with three hieroglyphic signs.
The artifact is a scarab seal, commonly used in ancient Egypt for sealing documents and items. It is crafted from stone and inscribed with well-defined hieroglyphs. The style is typical of personal seals, often used by officials or royalty to denote identity or authority. The surface is worn but retains clear inscriptions.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
reed
duck
bee
Visible text
"unknown"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247905 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.357 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544386 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.