Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed for Pharaoh Aya (I)
Description
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.
An oval-shaped scarab seal featuring carved hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a small, oval-shaped scarab carved from stone, featuring several hieroglyphic symbols. The style is typical of Egyptian amulets and seals, used in various administrative and ceremonial contexts. The inscription appears to be neatly carved, indicating skilled craftsmanship. The artifact has survived in good condition, preserving the detail of the hieroglyphs.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
ankh
ra
unknown ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243607 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545685 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.
- 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.