Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Stamp Seal Inscribed With An Ankh Between Two Falcons
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.
Two ancient Egyptian scarabs with mirror images of a schematic human figure.
The image shows two ancient Egyptian scarab seals featuring a schematic human figure with raised arms, surrounded by a rectangular border. The top scarab appears to be made from a light-colored material, possibly limestone or faience, while the bottom scarab is darker, suggesting a different material such as steatite. The style is simplistic and geometric, lacking detailed features, indicative of early Egyptian seal designs.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestonesteatite
Signs
raised arms figure ×2
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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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