Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed With the Name of Queen Ahhotep
Description
Glassy 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 made of blue faience with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an amuletic scarab featuring a decorative border and hieroglyphs inscribed on its flat underside. The prominent materials are blue-green faience, which was commonly used for small amulets and beads. The composition indicates a high level of craftsmanship with precise inscription engraving, suggesting it may have served a protective or symbolic function.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235418 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.120 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544439 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.