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.
A faience scaraboid depicting a beetle and possibly other symbols.
The artifact is a scaraboid made of faience, featuring the depiction of a beetle along with possible additional symbols or decorative motifs. The carving style is typical of small, handheld amulets often used in ancient Egypt. The craftsmanship focuses on the beetle, central to the design, and the object is rounded and detailed in relief.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280490 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.268 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546915 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.