Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab with Hieroglyphs and Hathor Sistrum
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 depicting a stylized tree and symbols.
The artifact is an Egyptian scarab shaped piece crafted in a faience material. It features a central stylized tree flanked by symmetrical symbols resembling bags or vessels. The scarab showcases typical symbolism often found in Egyptian artifacts, combining motifs that likely held protective or decorative significance.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
stylized tree
bag symbol ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413871 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.308 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545177 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.