Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Description
Brigth 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 scarab amulet with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an ancient Egyptian scarab, a common amulet shaped like a dung beetle, made from faience and inscribed with hieroglyphs. The glaze is turquoise-blue, a typical color for faience, and the inscriptions feature stylized glyphs arranged symmetrically. Scarabs were often used as amulets or seals and the craftsmanship here indicates it was perhaps used for personal or ceremonial purposes.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh ×3
Djed
Lotus ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244632 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.366 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545242 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.