Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scaraboid
Description
Faience, blue
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 small blue-green scarab amulet with incised hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a faience scarab featuring a series of incised lines and hieroglyphs. Its color is a vibrant blue-green, typical of Egyptian faience work. The visible signs are clearly inscribed on the flat underside, which is traditionally associated with protective amulets. It appears to have been worn, suggesting its use as a personal or funerary item.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×5
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413815 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.235 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545045 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.