Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Canaanite Scarab
Description
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 artifact with hieroglyphic inscriptions resembling a scarab seal.
The image depicts an ancient Egyptian scarab amulet, likely made from faience or stone. The artifact is oval in shape and has detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions on its flat surface, which were used for sealing documents or objects. The craftsmanship suggests intricate detail, with symmetrical hieroglyphic symbols arranged within an oval frame.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faiencestone
Signs
scarab
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282266 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 68.136.9 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546022 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.