Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with Inscription Referring to Osiris
Description
Light greenish stone
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 scarab artifact with hieroglyphic inscriptions on its base.
The artifact is a scarab made from what appears to be faience. The base is inscribed with hieroglyphs, typical of personal or religious significance. The hieroglyphs include various signs, possibly including a seated figure and symbols. The craftsmanship suggests it may have been used as an amulet or seal.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
seated_man
unknown_sign ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413879 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.333 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545226 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.