Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official Middle KingdomLisht North
Description
Middle Kingdom, mid Dynasty 13, ca. 1760–1670 B.C. Green glazed steatite. L. 1.9 × W. 1.2 × H. 0.8 cm (3/4 × 1/2 × 5/16 in.). From: Cemetery, debris, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations. Subject: Hieroglyphs, Scarabs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1909.
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(MET-Object 557046).
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- MMA 09.180.1213 PNM textLisht
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)
Multiple stacked hieroglyph-like signs in dark green/black; individual signs not clearly legible in the provided image.
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116282228 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 09.180.1213 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 557046 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83889839 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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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.