Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed With the Name Nefertari
Description
Blue 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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab with visible hieroglyphs engraved on its surface.
The image depicts an oval-shaped scarab artifact crafted from faience, featuring intricate hieroglyphic engravings. The scarab shows distinct signs of wear, with visible cracks on the surface. The color is predominantly blue-green, typical of faience objects, which were popular in ancient Egypt for their glaze and symbolical meanings.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Reed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280443 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.124 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546999 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.