Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with Lion-headed Goddess Protecting Maatkare
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 scarab amulet depicting a figure and hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a faience scarab amulet, featuring a detailed depiction of a falcon-headed figure alongside hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style suggests meticulous engraving with characteristic Egyptian motifs, including a cartouche. The green-blue glaze is typical of faience, which was commonly used in small Egyptian artifacts.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
faience
Signs
Falcon head
Ankh
Cartouche
Visible text
"ḥr (Horus)"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245083 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.3.232 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545161 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.