Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab
Description
Steatite (glazed)
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 with turquoise blue faience glaze.
The artifact is a scarab made from faience, featuring a turquoise blue glaze. It displays linear designs on its surface, typical of jewelry and amulets from the ancient Egyptian period. The piece seems to have an oval shape with intricate patterns that might represent symbols or hieroglyphs.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280521 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.289 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546909 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.