Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs Middle KingdomLisht North
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 13, ca. 1760–1670 B.C. Green glazed steatite. L. 1.7 × W. 1.2 × H. 0.9 cm (11/16 × 1/2 × 3/8 in.). From: Cemetery, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations. Subject: Scarabs. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Inscription present but not clearly legible; appears as a clustered set of geometric hieroglyphic signs with a central looped/ankh-like motif and surrounding border strokes.
Connections
Found at
Lisht
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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- 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.