Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry
Scarab of an Official Middle Kingdom
Description
Middle Kingdom, mid Dynasty 13, ca. 1760–1670 B.C. Brown glazed steatite. L. 2.1 × W. 1.5 × H. 0.9 cm (13/16 × 9/16 × 3/8 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926.
The same text in other collections
Linked by shared inventory number
(MET-Object 559690).
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- MMA 26.7.313 PNM textThebes
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.
Connections
Deities
Khonsu
Cross-references (5)
- Wikidata-Q Q116435391 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.313 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 559690 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- PNM-Object pnm:83890272 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.