Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of the Lady Nebetwadjyt
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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian scarab, which is an amulet typically used in the form of a dung beetle. This scarab has hieroglyphs on its flat underside, including signs that are clear and potentially symbolic. The style suggests the scarab was used for amuletic purposes.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
steatite
Signs
bread ×2
placenta
reed
Visible text
"mn X1 n{k}n"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243579 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545693 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.