Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Description
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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab with inscribed hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a scarab, likely made out of stone or faience, featuring deeply inscribed hieroglyphic symbols. The central imagery includes a common protective emblem surrounded by additional hieroglyphs. The style is typical of personal or protective seals used in ancient Egypt.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stonefaience
Signs
ankh
djed
was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244664 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.350 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545235 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.