Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official
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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab-shaped artifact with intricate carvings on its surface.
The artifact is a small, oval-shaped scarab, intricately carved with symmetrical designs and characters on its face, likely representing hieroglyphs. The outer edge features decorative linear patterns, indicative of careful craftsmanship, and typical of personal or religious items from ancient Egypt.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
unknown sign
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414910 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.424 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546860 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.