Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Canaanite Scarab with a Lion over a Crocodile
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.
An ancient Egyptian faience amulet depicting a lion with symbols.
The image shows a faience amulet with a vibrant turquoise glaze. The amulet features a lion walking to the left, accompanied by various symbols. The craftsmanship suggests detailed carving with emphasis on the lion's mane and posture, typical of Egyptian artistry focused on symbolic representation.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
lion
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247576 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.767 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544670 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.