Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed 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 small oval artifact featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a faience scarab or seal with a distinct greenish-blue glaze. It features hieroglyphic inscriptions engraved into its surface. The style is typical of small personal objects used in ancient Egypt, possibly for administrative or ceremonial purposes. The inscriptions align symmetrically around a central figure which could be a deity or symbol.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh ×2
djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244607 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.380 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545246 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.