Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab depicting a kneeling man (?)
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.
A small faience seal with a carved figure.
The artifact is a faience seal depicting a seated figure with one arm raised, likely crafted for decorative or symbolic purposes. The blue-green glaze common in Egyptian faience is prominent, and the surface shows some craquelure. The figure is stylized in a simplistic and abstract manner, a characteristic feature of Egyptian amulets and seals.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
seated figure
Visible text
"Transcription not possible from image"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247584 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.506 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544666 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.
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