Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Finger Ring of Senwosret III
Description
Amethyst, gold
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.
A golden scarab ring with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a golden ring featuring a scarab-shaped bezel. The scarab is adorned with intricately carved hieroglyphic inscriptions, possibly indicating the name of a pharaoh or a deity. The style is typical of New Kingdom jewelry, with precise craftsmanship and a symbolic emphasis on protection and rebirth.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
gold
Signs
scarab
sun disk
cartouche
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281866 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.756 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546139 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.