Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed for a Prince Intef
Description
Gray 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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab with detailed carvings.
This artifact is a scarab amulet featuring intricately carved hieroglyphs. The artifact displays typical style elements of Egyptian craftsmanship, with symmetric engravings and detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions. The border features a scroll design, framing the central hieroglyphic script.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Neb ×2
Visible text
"Unknown"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235414 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.118 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544440 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.