Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Commemorating the King's Marriage to 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 engraved scarab with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is an ancient Egyptian scarab with intricate lines of hieroglyphic inscriptions engraved on its surface. The style is typical of Middle Kingdom scarabs, commonly used as amulets. The surface shows well-preserved signs, and the composition suggests it might have been used in a funerary or ceremonial context.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
reed leaf ×4
water ripple ×3
Visible text
"mn-kheper-ra"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274897 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1643 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548625 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.