Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Heart Scarab Inscribed for Djehutymose
Description
Gold, jasper
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 gold necklace featuring an ancient Egyptian scarab with intricate engravings.
The artifact is a necklace composed of a gold chain with a central scarab crafted from a bluish material. The scarab is meticulously engraved with a series of hieroglyphs, showcasing typical Egyptian artistic styles. The piece exhibits skilled craftsmanship, particularly in the detailed carvings on the scarab and the fine crafting of the gold chain. The overall design and use of materials suggest it may have served as a piece of jewelry with amuletic or decorative purposes.
decorative
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
goldfaience
Signs
scarab
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116388895 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.979 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548590 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.