Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab
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.
A scarab amulet with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts a faience scarab amulet featuring intricate hieroglyphs with possibly glyphs representing the scarab beetle and associated symbols. The amulet shows traditional use of blue-green glaze, indicative of Egyptian faience, and displays detailed carving with a focus on symmetry and alignment.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280422 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.579 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547010 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.