Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Decorated with Scrolls
Description
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 blue faience scarab with spiral designs and a possible cartouche.
The artifact is a scarab made from blue faience, displaying intricate spiral patterns and an oval shape that may contain a cartouche. The design is raised, typical of scarab amulets, which were popular in ancient Egypt for personal adornment and protection.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
spiral pattern ×4
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244659 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.353 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545237 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.