Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Sebekhotep III
Description
Steatite, traces of green glaze
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 seal with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts a scarab seal made of stone, carved with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions. The seal appears to be in an oval shape with a flat base where the inscriptions are carved. The artistry suggests skilled craftsmanship, common in ancient Egyptian seals used for official and ceremonial purposes.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Was
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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