Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Amenemhat III
Description
Green 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.
The artifact is an ancient Egyptian scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian scarab, a common form of amulet and seal. The artifact features a flat base inscribed with hieroglyphs. Its design is typical of scarabs from the Middle Kingdom to the Late Period, with a green glaze commonly seen in faience objects.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243589 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545689 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.