Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Queen Inni
Description
Faience
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 oval-shaped ancient Egyptian scarab with hieroglyphs inscribed.
This artifact is an ancient Egyptian scarab in the form of an oval, featuring neatly carved hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface. The scarab is created from a material that appears to be a type of stone or perhaps faience, showing craftsmanship typical of Egyptian amulets used for protection or conveying royal messages. The intricacy of the hieroglyphs suggests the significance of the inscribed text or name.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
scarab
ankh
unknown sign ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244718 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.332 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545225 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.