Heart Scarab
Description
Heart Scarab, Ruy (?). Late Period, Dynasty 26–30, 664–332 B.C. Dark green stone. L. 6.1 × W. 4.2 × H. 2.7 cm (2 3/8 × 1 5/8 × 1 1/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
Oval dark green stone heart scarab engraved on one face with dense lines of incised hieroglyphs.
The image shows a small oval amuletic object with a polished surface. The central face is filled with closely spaced incised hieroglyphic text arranged in multiple horizontal registers; individual signs are not fully legible at this resolution, but the layout is clearly epigraphic rather than decorative-only. There is no clearly visible cartouche, deity figure, or human/animal relief; the only visible iconography is the hieroglyphic inscription. The reverse is not shown. The object appears consistent with a carved heart amulet (scarab form implied by the catalogue, though the beetle form is not clearly visible from this image). No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415409 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1650 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548226 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.