Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Signet ring

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Description

Blue faience

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 blue faience scarab artifact with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is an oval-shaped scarab made of blue faience, a material commonly used in ancient Egyptian amulets. The surface is covered with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions featuring various symbols and signs. Notable features include the overall craftsmanship and the legibility of the inscriptions that cover the surface.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom good
Materials faience
Signs scarab ankh was sceptre

Connections

Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389549 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.7.825 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544747 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.