Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Sebekhotep IV
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 depicting hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a scarab-shaped seal with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions on its flat surface. The craftsmanship shows detailed carving in a style typical of personal seals used for stamping. The material appears to be stone, possibly steatite, which was commonly used for such seals due to its workability.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
scarab
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247895 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.423 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544393 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.