Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of king's son Sobekhotep
Description
Steatite, blue glaze
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.
This is an ancient Egyptian scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface.
The artifact is a scarab, a type of amulet common in ancient Egypt, made from what appears to be a faience material. The surface is engraved with several hieroglyphic signs, possibly including ankh symbols and others that form part of a name or title. The craftsmanship suggests attention to detail, indicative of its possible use as a personal seal or protective amulet.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh ×3
reed leaf
scarab
Visible text
"unclear"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235420 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.643 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544397 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.
- 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.