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Scarab Inscribed with the Name Amenhotep

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Carnelian

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.

A small, oval scarab-shaped seal carved in reddish-orange material, showing incised design and lettering on the face.

The object is oriented face-up and appears as an oval scarab/cylinder-seal style form. The surface is reddish-orange and polished, with a raised border around a recessed face. Incised/engraved elements include a rectangular, stepped arrangement near the top and additional blocky strokes and a circular/oval element near the lower left; these look like hieroglyphic or inscriptional marks but are not fully legible at this resolution. No cartouche framing is clearly identifiable. No deities’ iconography (e.g., gods’ figures) is clearly visible—only inscription-like signs. No modern text, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic is visible.

decorative New Kingdom (per catalogue); inscription/signs not legible enough to refine further. good
Royals Amenhotep (name appears likely but inscription not legible enough to confirm visually)
Materials carnelian (reddish/orange polished stone appearance)
Signs Inscriptional hieroglyph-like strokes (not securely readable) ×5

Connections

Royals Amenhotep I

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244513 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.313 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 554719 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • 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.