Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
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 faience scarab pendant featuring hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a small, oval-shaped scarab made from faience, showcasing a vibrant blue-green glaze. It features a central hieroglyph flanked by two ankh symbols, indicative of its potential amuletic or symbolic significance. The style is consistent with Egyptian jewelry and amulets, commonly made during the Middle to New Kingdoms.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh ×2
unknown central sign
Visible text
"Ankh symbols and central hieroglyph"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243444 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.46 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545743 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.