Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official
Description
Green faience
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 with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact depicted is an oval-shaped scarab made of a material with a brown hue and possibly some patina, featuring a dense array of carved hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs exhibit typical Egyptian artistic style and composition, showcasing symbols such as birds, lines, and other recognizable elements arranged methodically. This kind of scarab usually served amuletic or official purposes.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
seated man
quail chick
reed
Visible text
"ankh"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244535 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.420 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545260 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.