Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed with the Name of Ramesses II
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.
A small, oval-shaped artifact displaying an engraved figure within an oval border.
The object appears to be a faience scarab or amulet, exhibiting a characteristic oval shape with a flat base. The top is engraved with a figure or potentially a set of hieroglyphs enclosed within a border, possibly a cartouche. The material is turquoise-blue faience, a common choice for Egyptian artifacts due to its shiny and glassy finish.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
seated figure
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243580 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.9 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545692 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.