Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Nebirierau I
Description
Dark blue glazed faience
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 with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an oval-shaped scarab made from stone, featuring detailed engravings. The surface displays several hieroglyphs within a cartouche, indicating its potential use as a seal or amulet. The engraving style is indicative of traditional Egyptian craftsmanship with visible wear that suggests historical usage.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
scarab
nefer
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247842 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.314 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544436 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.