Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Heart Scarab with the Cartouche of Amenirdis
Description
Porphyry
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 inscribed stone tablet with multiple rows of hieroglyphs.
This artifact is a well-preserved stone tablet featuring ten rows of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The inscriptions are arranged neatly in horizontal lines. The carving style is traditional, with each hieroglyph distinct and carefully inscribed. The stone is smooth, indicating careful workmanship. A crack is visible at the bottom of the stone suggesting some wear or damage.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Signs
reed leaf ×8
vulture ×5
hand ×3
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413959 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.6.38 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545436 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.