Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab with Antelope and Uraei
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 scarab seal depicting a hieroglyphic scene.
The image shows a scarab seal, likely crafted from a light-colored stone such as steatite. The top is carved with a depiction of a human or deity seated with arms raised, surrounded by hieroglyphic symbols. Scarab seals like this were commonly used in personal and administrative contexts in ancient Egypt. The engraving is detailed, suggesting it was made during a time when craftsmanship was highly developed.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
seated man
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116250534 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.181 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546611 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.