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

Scarab Inscribed with the Names of Amun-Re and Neit

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Description

Light green faience

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 inscribed with an epigraphic design on the dorsal surface, photographed against a plain background.

The object is an oval, dome-shaped scarab with a worn/dusty surface. The back (dorsal) face shows a shallow central motif resembling a circular or oval cartouche-like element at the top, below which are horizontal bar-like bands and a wavy zigzag/serpentine line. Near the middle-lower section there is a bilaterally placed, roughly X/Y-like form that could be decorative or part of the inscription layout, though the exact hieroglyphs are not legible at this resolution. No clear legible royal cartouches or full hieroglyph groups can be confidently read. The light-colored material appears sandy/stone-like rather than clearly light green in the provided photograph; however, the cataloged material is light green faience. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

hieroglyphic only New Kingdom (catalogued); inscription style not fully legible in image poor
Materials unknown pale/stone-like surface in image (faience color not clearly verifiable)
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic or decorative motif (top circular/oval element) Unidentified horizontal bar element(s) ×2 Unidentified wavy/zigzag element Unidentified bilaterally placed cross/X-like elements ×2

Connections

Found at Lisht

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116420810 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 09.180.953 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 553402 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.
  • 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.