Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
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 ancient Egyptian artifact with intricate looping designs.
The artifact is a small, oval-shaped object, likely a scarab or amulet, featuring intricate and symmetrical looping patterns. The loops form a decorative motif that is typical in Egyptian artistry, often seen in jewelry and ornamentation. The craftsmanship suggests it might have been used as a personal item or jewelry, possibly serving an amuletic function.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282264 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 68.136.10 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546023 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.