Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with device of an antelope
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 amulet with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact appears to be a scarab amulet made from faience, featuring engraved hieroglyphs. The composition includes a stylized beetle shape with a series of inscribed signs on its flat surface. Notable features include the use of blue-green glaze and the presence of fine details in the carving, suggestive of religious or protective significance.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Akh
Neb
Visible text
"ankh-akhet-neb"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280423 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.559 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547009 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.