Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Finger Ring of an Official Middle KingdomLisht North
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 13, ca. 1802–1640 B.C. Green jasper. L. 3.4 × W. 2.7 × H. 1.3 cm (1 5/16 × 1 1/16 × 1/2 in.). From: south of Tomb of Nakht (493), south cemetery, Pit 453, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1913–14. Subject: Hieroglyphs, Scarabs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1915.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Incised hieroglyph-like motif on the scarab face; exact reading unclear at this image resolution.
Connections
Found at
Lisht
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)
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.