Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cowroid Naming Queen Ahmose Nefertari
Description
Glazed 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 scarab featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
This artifact is a carved scarab with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface. The scarab likely served as a decorative or amuletic object, showcasing a highly stylized and symmetrical arrangement of hieroglyphs, typical of personal adornments from ancient Egypt.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246380 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.172 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544819 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.