Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with Scroll 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 faience scaraboid with blue glaze featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an oval-shaped scaraboid composed of faience with a vivid blue glaze. It features incised hieroglyphs on its surface, surrounded by a border. The composition shows traditional style characteristic of personal adornments or seals used in ancient Egypt. The glaze suggests strong preservation of color.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Wedjat eye
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244667 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.348 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545234 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.
- 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.