Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab
Description
Obsidian
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 small carved scarab amulet with detailed features.
The artifact is a beetle-shaped scarab amulet, finely carved from a dark stone, possibly obsidian or black steatite. The carving is detailed, showing the insect's legs and wing outline on the top surface. The underside is not visible in the image, so any inscription or additional features there are unknown.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414696 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.46 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546481 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.