Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Amenemhat III
Description
Steatite, traces of green glaze
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 with a carved design.
The artifact is a small scarab amulet made of gold, featuring a carved inscription on its surface. The design is indicative of Egyptian craftsmanship, typically used for personal adornment or as a seal. The carving seems linear, with a symmetrical composition.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
gold
Signs
unknown ×3
Visible text
"unknown"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243601 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545687 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.