Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scaraboid
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 faience artifact depicting symbols and figures.
This is an ancient Egyptian artifact made of faience, featuring various symbols including two elongated figures that appear to be birds, possibly representing deities or symbolic animals. The design also includes additional symbols that might be related to Egyptian mythology or writing. The artifact is oval-shaped and exhibits the typical green glaze characteristic of faience.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
bird ×2
ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280642 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.237 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546889 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.