Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed With the Name Amenhotep
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.
Green faience scaraboid with marginally visible carvings.
The artifact is a green faience scaraboid amulet, oval in shape, with faint carvings on one side. The carvings appear to be simplistic in style, possibly representing hieroglyphic symbols or patterns. The amulet shows signs of wear, suggesting it was used as a personal item.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280438 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.135 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547001 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.