Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official
Description
Brigth 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.
A faience scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small faience scarab amulet featuring incised hieroglyphic inscriptions on its flat surface. The inscriptions appear to be typical of protective or symbolic nature, commonly found on such artifacts. The glaze exhibits a blue-green coloration indicative of Egyptian faience and used for its lustrous finish.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
nefer
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244764 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.320 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545219 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.