Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · papyrus

Scarab

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Description

Caption: Scarab, late 19th century. Steatite, glaze, 5/16 x 3/16 x 1/2 in. (0.8 x 0.4 x 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 35.1110. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

An oval-shaped artifact photographed against a white background with scale markers.

The image shows a small, oval-shaped object, possibly a scarab or seal, commonly encountered in Egyptian archaeological contexts. The artifact is placed alongside a ruler for scale, indicating its relatively small size. The surface appears smooth, and the material is likely stone, though the specific type is unclear.

unclear unknown good
Materials stone

Connections

Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 35.1110 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 44735 tier-2
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  • 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.