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 faience scarab seal with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small scarab-shaped seal made from faience. It features a set of hieroglyphic inscriptions on its base. The style is typical of amulets and seals used in ancient Egypt for protective or administrative purposes. The glazing and intricate carvings indicate its craftsmanship.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown sign
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244548 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.404 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545255 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.