Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with the Name of King and the Sacred Goose of Amun
Description
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.
A faience scarab depicting a duck and hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a faience scarab with a depiction of a duck, which is accompanied by hieroglyphs. The design is in relief, typical of Egyptian amulets and jewelry. The detailing on the duck and the hieroglyphs is precise, indicating the skilled craftsmanship involved. Scarabs like this were often used as amulets or seals.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
duck
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235272 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.589 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548628 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.