Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · jewelry

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep I

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Description

Steatite, glazed

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.

Green glazed scarab-shaped seal/pin with a recessed oval beetle form and an inscribed field on its back.

The image shows a small, oval scarab (back facing upward) rendered in a green-blue glazed surface with darker outlines. The scarab’s body is recessed, with a central circular motif on the upper portion and additional raised/recessed forms suggesting carved symbols within an oval cartouche-like border. The background around the scarab is plain white. No clear separate throne-name cartouche, legible hieroglyphic strings, or readable royal cartouche markings are distinguishable at this resolution; the interior markings appear abstract/partially obscured by glaze and wear. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (ground truth: New Kingdom) good
Materials glazed ceramic/steatite-like core (green glaze)
Signs abstract carved glyph-like forms (not clearly legible) ×3

Connections

Royals Amenhotep I

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244516 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.46 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554716 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.
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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.