Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Inscribed For the Scribe Djehutymose
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.
An ancient Egyptian scarab featuring engraved hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a faience scarab with distinct, yet worn, hieroglyphic inscriptions. The scarab's glazing suggests a bluish hue fading into earthen tones, and the hieroglyphs seem primarily symbolic, possibly indicating names or titles. The craftsmanship is characteristic of the small, detailed artistry of scarabs used as seals or amulets.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Reed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280435 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.309 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547003 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.