Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed With the Name of Princess Neferure
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 scarab engraved with hieroglyphs and an image of a seated figure.
The artifact is a scarab amulet featuring a seated figure alongside a series of hieroglyphic symbols. The style reflects typical Egyptian artistic conventions, with a small, detailed composition that is common on scarabs serving amuletic purposes. The symbols are clearly etched, showing considerable craftsmanship, and the overall structure is oval, characteristic of scarabs.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
seated man
sun disk
unknown symbol ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280436 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.163 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547002 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.