Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official
Description
Green 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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts a small Egyptian scarab, likely made from steatite or faience, with intricate hieroglyphic carvings on its surface. The carvings appear to include several recognizable glyphs arranged in symmetrical patterns typical of Middle Kingdom amulets. The scarab's surface shows some signs of aging but is overall well-preserved, allowing for the details of the inscriptions to be visible.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab
reed ×2
water
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413849 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.245 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545068 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.