Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Canaanite Scarab Showing a Prostrate Man under Two Cobras and a Scarab (Emblems of a Ruler)
Description
Steatite (glazed)
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 faience scarab with hieroglyphic and animal motifs.
The object is a faience scarab which includes detailed depictions of hieroglyphs and images of animals such as birds and possible symbolic motifs. The glazing and crafting are indicative of typical Egyptian art which was meant for decorative or amuletic purposes. The motifs suggest religious significance.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
bird
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247585 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.765 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544665 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.