Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Incised with Hieroglyphs and Scrolls
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.
A carved artifact with spiral patterns.
The artifact is an oval-shaped object with a series of intricate spiral carvings covering its surface. The spirals are evenly distributed and exhibit a decorative style that seems to suggest aesthetic purposes. The craftsmanship appears delicate and precise, embodying symmetrical patterns common in Egyptian decorative arts.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414741 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.239 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546613 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
- 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.