Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Set in a Ring Bezel
Description
Glazed steatite, electrum
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 faience scarab depicting a hieroglyphic symbol.
The artifact is a circular faience bead or amulet set in a metal frame. It features an intricate depiction of a hieroglyphic sign, possibly a seated deity or symbol, rendered in greenish faience on a light background. The design is surrounded by a metal border which shows signs of age.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
faiencemetal
Signs
unknown symbol
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274992 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.560 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548529 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.