Scarab with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Description
White talc
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 seal carved in light stone, with incised decorative elements and faint hieroglyphic-like marks across the surface.
The image shows a flattened, rounded scarab form in a pale, whitish material. Two shallow oval incisions at the top right and lower right suggest carved ornament or stylized signs, while a long, sinuous line with a vertical element in the center appears like part of an incised motif. On the left side, a large curved/looped mark resembles a stylized hieroglyph or part of the throne-name formula, but the complete signs are not clearly legible at this resolution. The object has no visible mounting or backing and no clear cartouche framing is visible in the photograph. No deities are identifiable, and no readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.
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.