Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with 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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab seal with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian scarab, a small, carved stone object in the shape of a beetle, used as a seal. The object features hieroglyphic inscriptions on its flat underside. The craftsmanship is typical of Egyptian scarabs, often made of faience or stone, and used for amulets or administrative purposes. The inscriptions might indicate ownership or an offering formula.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab
basket
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244633 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.362 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545241 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.