Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Group of Four Scarabs
Description
Faience, Paste
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.
The image shows a set of ancient Egyptian scarabs on a string.
The image features four ancient Egyptian scarabs, likely made of faience or stone, strung together. These scarabs appear to be amulets, with some hieroglyphic inscriptions visible on the surfaces. The carvings are relatively well-preserved, suggesting a symbolic or religious significance.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280457 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.393a–d tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546989 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.