Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Re
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, likely a scarab, with carved hieroglyphs on one side.
The artifact is a scarab amulet with detailed hieroglyphic carvings on its flat side. The surface is smoothed, likely made of faience, and features a typical oval shape associated with protection and rebirth in Egyptian culture. The carvings show clear, legible symbols which may indicate names or titles.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243517 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.34 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545712 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.