Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab
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.
A blue artifact with engraved patterns resembling ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The artifact is small and blue, likely made of faience, featuring an engraved pattern organized in horizontal rows. The patterns consist of leaf-like or 'ankh'-like shapes repeated across the surface, suggesting an ornamental or symbolic purpose.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh-like shape ×12
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280281 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.219 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546963 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.
- 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.