Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official
Description
Dark blue glassy faience
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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian faience artifact with visible hieroglyphs.
The image depicts a broken piece of blue faience, likely an amulet or ornamental object. The surface shows intricate designs including clear hieroglyphic inscriptions. The artifact appears to be highly stylized, characteristic of ancient Egyptian faience craftsmanship during various periods.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243555 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545698 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.