Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Description
Dark blue glazed faience
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 Egyptian scarab seal with carved inscriptions.
The artifact is an oval-shaped scarab seal made from blue faience. The surface features intricate carvings depicting stylized Egyptian symbols, possibly including hieroglyphs. The central motif is surrounded by symmetrical, curvilinear patterns indicative of elaborate design requirements typical of Egyptian seals.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
possible ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414799 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.234 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546697 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.
- 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.