Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with Lion and Uraeus
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.
A small artifact depicting an animal-like figure in glazed material.
The artifact is an oval-shaped piece of faience, featuring a dark blue-green glazed depiction of what appears to be an animal, possibly a crocodile or a mythical creature. The composition is relatively simple, focusing on the single figure with little background detail. The outlining of the figure suggests stylized artistic conventions typical of Egyptian art.
decorative
unclear
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243533 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.28 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545706 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.