Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab
Description
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 featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
This is an ancient Egyptian scarab seal made from faience, showcasing detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions and symbolic imagery. The artifact is a carved, oval-shaped object that was traditionally used as a seal or amulet. Hieroglyphs and figures are intricately inscribed, with a deity-like figure and an offering scene typical of protective or memorial functions.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244926 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.352 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545201 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.