Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of a Priest of Hathor
Description
Green feldspar
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 ancient Egyptian faience scarab with engravings.
This artifact is a small faience scarab featuring intricate engravings on its flat underside. The greenish-blue color is typical of faience. The pattern on the surface seems to depict a combination of symbols or hieroglyphs. The shape and style are consistent with scarabs used as seals in ancient Egypt.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414827 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.285 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546740 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.