Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab
Description
Blue 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.
A faience scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions on the underside.
The artifact is a small scarab amulet made of glazed faience, exhibiting a pleasing blue-green hue typical of Egyptian faience. The top side is crafted to depict the detailed form of a scarab beetle. The underside includes hieroglyphic inscriptions, which are typical features for scarabs that often contain names or protective phrases. Signs of age are visible through the crackling on the surface.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
Visible text
"unclear"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247849 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.713 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544423 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.