Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official
Description
Blue 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 seal with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an oval-shaped scarab seal likely made of faience, featuring intricate hieroglyphic motifs. The composition includes symbols that resemble traditional protective scarab designs and hieroglyphs inscribed on the flat underside. Notable features include detailed symbology relevant to Egyptian iconography.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab
ankh
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389536 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.285 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545198 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.
- 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.