Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab Finger Ring of Ramesses II New Kingdom, Ramesside
Description
New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, ca. 1295–1070 B.C. Bronze or copper alloy, steatite. Diam. 3 cm (1 3/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Scarabs. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
AI reading of the photograph
Visible text (machine reading)
Red pigment: a short vertical group of strokes/signs on the left side of the scarab; exact reading unclear.
Connections
Royals
Ramesses II
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116256748 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.941 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 550646 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.