Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Part of a Scarab Inscribed for Neferhotep I
Description
Bright blue glazed 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.
Fragment of a blue faience artifact with Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a fragmentary blue faience piece, displaying part of an oblong shape with visible hieroglyphic inscriptions. The faience is characterized by its bright turquoise-blue glaze, commonly used in small Egyptian objects. The markings suggest it once held a decorative or possibly ceremonial purpose. The style is typical of Egyptian artifacts that feature hieroglyphic inscriptions as part of their design.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243606 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.3 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545686 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.