Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Depicting Queen Tiye
Description
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 faience scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a scarab crafted from faience, showcasing intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions. It features a seated human figure, likely a deity, with additional hieroglyphs and a cartouche surrounding it. The scarab is detailed with vibrant blue and black coloring, typical of faience. The piece appears mounted on a modern stand for display.
royal
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Amun
Royals
Thutmose III
Materials
faiencewood
Signs
ankh
scarab
cartouche
Visible text
"Men-kheper-re"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274898 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.99 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548621 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.