Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Ring of the Sealer Khensu
Description
Green jasper scarab on gold ring
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 ring with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a scarab-shaped ring with hieroglyphic inscriptions etched into its surface, likely made of faience or steatite, and set in a gold band. The hieroglyphs include symbols such as a seated figure, birds, and plants, commonly found in Egyptian iconography.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stonegold
Signs
seated man
reed
bird
Visible text
"𓅓𓂋"
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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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