Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Finger Ring of an Official
Description
Green jasper
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 green faience scarab set in a ring, inscribed with hieroglyphs.
This artifact is a scarab amulet set in a gold ring, crafted from green faience. It features intricately carved hieroglyphs on the scarab's surface. The design includes prominent looping patterns typical of decorative motifs. The materials and style are indicative of amulets used for decorative and amuletic purposes in ancient Egypt.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faiencegold
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280863 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.135a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546686 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.