Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scaraboid of Amenemhat III
Description
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.
A scarab with a carved design, possibly featuring hieroglyphic symbols.
The artifact is a scarab amulet featuring carved inscriptions on its surface, suggestive of hieroglyphic symbols. The style is typical of small faience amulets used in various periods of ancient Egypt. The carvings appear intricate, likely serving a symbolic or protective function.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
possible Ankh
possible scarab beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243581 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545691 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.