Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Canaanite Scarab with a Roaring Lion
Description
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.
A faience scarab seal depicting a lion and other symbols.
The artifact is a scarab seal made of faience, featuring a lion walking to the right as its central figure. Surrounding the lion are various hieroglyphic symbols, possibly intended for protection or royal association. The craftsmanship shows typical Egyptian detail with engraved relief style. The turquoise and brown coloration highlights the carved figures and hieroglyphs, emphasizing its ornamental and symbolic significance.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
lion
unknown_orb_symbol
unknown_fish_symbol
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247580 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.769 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544669 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.