Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Incised with Nefer Sign and Scrolls
Description
Blue 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 seal or amulet featuring decorative motifs.
The artifact is an oval-shaped seal or amulet with intricate decorative designs in a blue-green material, likely faience. The central motif appears to be a stylized or symbolic reference, surrounded by scroll-like patterns. Its composition suggests careful craftsmanship, typical of personal or ceremonial objects.
decorative
unclear
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243525 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.30 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545708 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.