Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Incised with Hieroglyphs
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 glazed faience scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions on the base.
The artifact is a small scarab crafted from faience, displaying hieroglyphs meticulously carved on its flat base. The glaze used gives it a blue-green hue typical of many Egyptian faience objects. It features clearly visible signs, suggesting it might represent a name, title, or protective formula. The craftsmanship is indicative of a period where personal seals and amulets were commonly used.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
A scarab beetle
A possible ankh sign
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244611 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.368 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545244 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.