Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Incised with Hieroglyph and Papyrus
Description
Bright blue faience
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 blue scarab with intricate carvings.
The artifact is a finely crafted blue scarab made of faience, featuring elaborate carvings on the top surface. It is small in size and the depiction includes what appears to be floral or symbolic designs, typical of protective amulets. The craftsmanship indicates a detailed attention to ornamental style.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243435 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 20.1.55 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545744 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.