Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with Quadruped
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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab depicting a symbol resembling a horned quadruped.
The image shows an oval-shaped scarab with an inscription featuring a horned animal, possibly a ram, under a hieroglyph that may represent 'nefer'. The surface of the scarab appears worn, indicating age, yet the carved symbols remain distinct. The artifact showcases typical Egyptian faience with a greenish glaze, a common material for scarabs during the pharaonic periods.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
horned quadruped
nefer
Visible text
"nefer"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244579 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.403 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545254 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.