Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Incised with Hieroglyphs in Scroll Border
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 oval-shaped seal with intricately carved patterns.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian scarab seal featuring symmetric carved patterns that may represent symbols or signs. The central design is surrounded by loops, creating a detailed composition. The seal appears to be crafted from a light-colored material, possibly limestone or faience.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280663 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.164 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546848 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.