Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Seti II
Description
Faience
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 visible hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a scarab, crafted from blue faience, depicting hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface. It shows typical Egyptian artistic styles with an oval shape and detailed carvings possibly indicating royal names within cartouches. The object appears worn but retains much of its original detail.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
cartouche ×2
Connections
Materials
Faience
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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.