Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Description
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 hieroglyphs.
The artifact is an oval-shaped scarab featuring a symmetrical arrangement of hieroglyphs. Notable features include the presence of the eye of Horus motif, suggesting protective or religious symbolism, indicative of careful craftsmanship and possibly used as an amulet.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
faience
Signs
Eye of Horus ×2
Ankh
Djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243551 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.23 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545701 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.