Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Fragment of a Human-Headed Heart Scarab
Description
Stone
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 fragment of an artifact with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image shows a fragmentary piece of an Egyptian artifact, likely made of stone or faience. The surface prominently features hieroglyphic inscriptions that are incised onto it. The style of the writing and the composition of the artifact suggest it might have been part of a larger object, possibly used for ceremonial or decorative purposes.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
nfr
anx
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414598 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 41.160.135 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546147 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.