Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with the Representation of a Falcon and Hieroglyphs
Description
Bright 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 turquoise-blue scarab seal with faint carvings or inscriptions.
The artifact is a scarab seal, a small, oval object made of faience with a glazed surface. It appears to have inscriptions or designs carved into one side, commonly used in ancient Egypt for stamping or sealing documents. The style is typical of traditional Egyptian craftsmanship, using vibrant colors and symmetrical designs.
decorative
unclear
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244687 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.345 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545232 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.