Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
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 Egyptian scarab seal with intricate carvings.
The artifact is a scarab seal featuring symmetrical and intricate carvings on its surface. The design includes what appear to be hieroglyphic symbols and possibly some abstract motifs. The artifact is oval in shape, typical of scarab seals, and displays a greenish hue indicative of faience material. The carvings are well-preserved, presenting classic styles of Egyptian symbolic art.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243552 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.25 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545703 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.