Scarab
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.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.1110 tier-2
- BKM-Object 44735 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.