Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Scarab with Figure of Winged Seth-Baal
Description
Green 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 faience amulet with incised hieroglyphic symbols.
The artifact is a faience scarab amulet featuring stylized hieroglyphs. Typical of Egyptian craftsmanship, it displays greenish-blue glaze with lightly incised symbols. The design is simple, indicating it could have been used as a personal adornment or talisman.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413880 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.392 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545250 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.