Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Heart scarab
Description
Green stone
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 oval-shaped artifact with inscribed hieroglyphs.
The artifact is an oval, likely a scarab or similar object, inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs over a bronzed or stone surface. The inscriptions are arranged in horizontal lines, suggesting a formal composition. The engravings appear to be carefully executed, possibly indicating a religious or royal context.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
stonebronze
Signs
unknown ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413960 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.6.40 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545437 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.