Scarab With an Image of the Gods Ptah and Sakhmet

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.

An oval scarab/seal amulet with blue-green glazed steatite, showing a carved/painted scene of two deities standing back-to-back or flanking a central motif with short hieroglyph-like elements.

The image shows a small, oval scarab-like amulet with a glossy blue-green glaze over a steatite body. The main face contains a recessed/raised figure group divided into two vertical sections. On the left, a human-like deity in profile stands holding an ankh-like sign and/or a staff-like attribute; behind/above are small paired marks that resemble hieroglyphic strokes. On the right, another deity stands facing inward toward the central area, holding a long staff or scepter and wearing a tall headpiece. Between and beneath the figures is a grid-like or rectangular band with horizontal lines and vertical strokes that may correspond to a typified throne/temple or sign group. No clearly legible hieroglyphic text, cartouches, or royal titulary is visible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present. The object’s face design aligns broadly with iconographic depictions of Ptah and Sekhmet, but the image resolution does not allow confident identification of specific deities by their full attributes (e.g., Sekhmet’s lion form or Ptah’s specific regalia), so identification is marked as unclear.