Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Design Amulet with a Hippopotamus (? ) Head on the Back Pierced for Stringing, and a Left-facing Monkey as the Device
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.
The object is a small, circular artifact with an engraved inscription.
This artifact is a scarab made from green glazed faience, featuring a carved inscription on its flat side. The engraving appears to be a form of hieroglyphic script, with notable signs including a central coil and potential symbols for animals or deities. The craftsmanship reflects the typical style of scarabs used as seals and amulets in ancient Egypt.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
coil
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247871 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.33 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544413 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.