Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Sebekhotep IV
Description
Steatite, traces of green glaze
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 small ancient Egyptian scarab with inscribed hieroglyphs.
The artifact is an ancient Egyptian scarab featuring intricate carvings of hieroglyphs on its flat side. It is an oval-shaped object often used in ancient Egypt as a seal or amulet. The surface shows signs of aging but retains a clear depiction of the hieroglyphs, which include common symbols often seen in religious or royal contexts. The composition suggests it might have been used for sealing or as a token carrying a prayer or name.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
Eye of Horus
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244796 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.316 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545215 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.