Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with the Name of Amenemhat III and a Hippopotamus Hunt
Description
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, turquoise blue scarab featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a faience scarab amulet with a deep turquoise glaze. The upper side is designed to resemble a stylized beetle, while the underside showcases intricately engraved hieroglyphs. The craftsmanship suggests detail-oriented symbolic or religious significance, common in personal adornments or offerings.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243478 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.2.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545721 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.