Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of Queen Ity (Aty)
Description
Bright blue 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 visible hieroglyphs on its surface.
This artifact appears to be a small scarab amulet, crafted in a typical ovoid shape with intricately carved hieroglyphs on its surface. The blue-green glaze suggests it is made from faience, which was commonly used in Egyptian amulets. The hieroglyphs are inscribed on the slightly convex surface, and the piece has signs of wear, indicating its antiquity. A red mark is visible on the side, possibly a museum catalog number.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Was-sceptre
Djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243576 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.14 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545696 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.