Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Scarab with the Representation of a Falcon-headed Figure Between Uraei
Description
Green 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 oval-shaped faience object with carved hieroglyphic symbols.
The artifact is a small, oval-shaped piece crafted from faience with clear hieroglyphic inscriptions. The surface shows signs of wear, yet the carvings remain discernible. Notable features include the typical glazed finish characteristic of faience artifacts, and the style suggests it is likely linked to a specific cultural or administrative context.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280943 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.155 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546621 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.