Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed 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.
A blue-green faience scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a scarab amulet crafted from blue-green faience, featuring detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions on its surface. The inscriptions appear to be arranged in a vertical fashion, characteristic of amulets from the Middle to New Kingdoms in ancient Egypt. The scarab's surface shows signs of wear but retains its distinct coloration and intricate line work.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
ankh
unknown ×2
Visible text
"ḥtp di nsw"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244584 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.399 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545252 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.