Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Decorated with Circles
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 amulet depicting the Udjat eye symbol.
This artifact is a small amulet featuring the Udjat eye motif, which is prominently shown with characteristic circular designs representing the eyes and surrounding features. It is made from faience, a common material for such amulets, known for its glazed, light-blue surface. Such objects were often used for protection.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Udjat eye
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244546 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.409 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545257 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.