Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Re
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 faience amulet or seal with Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a faience scarab seal with a small loop for suspension. The top surface is inscribed with hieroglyphs, likely representing a royal name or invocation. The craftsmanship is typical of personal adornments used in daily life or funerary contexts. The object's composition, including its glazed surface, indicates it was valued for both its symbolism and its aesthetics.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244544 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.410 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545258 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.