Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official
Description
Brigth 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.
A faience scarab with detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a faience scarab displaying a polished surface with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions across its face. The writing is detailed, with a combination of linear and curved signs, suggesting a high degree of craftsmanship. The design is typical of amulets used for protection and is characteristic of Egyptian decorative style.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Signs
reed ×3
basket ×2
beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243560 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.15 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545697 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.