Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab
Description
Steatite (glazed)
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 with decorative patterns.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian scarab artifact, likely made of faience. The scarab is decorated with intricate curvilinear patterns in turquoise hues. These decorations appear to be symmetrical and are enclosed within an oval shape typical of scarabs. The style and composition suggest it may have served an amuletic or decorative function.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280073 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.432 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547038 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.