Scarab Inscribed with the Name of the God Amun-Re
Description
Scarab; Amun-Re; simple back. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Steatite (glazed). L. 1.6 cm (5/8 in); w. 1.2 cm (1/2 in); h. 0.7 cm (1/4 in). From: Temple of Hatshepsut, Foundation Deposit 7 (G), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1926–27. Subject: Scarabs. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927.
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, glazed steatite scarab with a dark incised inscription on a turquoise-green background.
The image shows the back side of a small oval scarab (scaraboid seal) with a glossy, turquoise-green glaze. The central field contains dark, ink-like incised hieroglyphic signs arranged in stacked lines and columns. The inscription is partially legible in shape only; individual signs can be recognized as multiple hieroglyphs but the exact reading is unclear from this resolution. No readable Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No cartouche with a royal name is clearly identified. The visible inscriptions appear to be directly relevant to the catalogue’s “inscribed with the name of the god Amun-Re,” but the precise divine name cannot be confirmed with certainty in this image.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116276950 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 27.3.339 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 559890 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.