Medical Amulet for Good Digestion
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Gnostic Caption: Gnostic. Medical Amulet for Good Digestion, 2nd–4th century C.E.. Steatite (?), 13/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2 × 3.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.166. (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 ancient Egyptian scarab amulet featuring hieroglyphs.
The image depicts a scarab amulet, a popular ancient Egyptian object used for protection and symbolism. The scarab appears to be made of stone, with engraved hieroglyphic elements on its surface. The composition includes recognizable symbols often used in religious or funerary contexts. The amulet is pierced at the top, suggesting it may have been worn on a string or attached to an object.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.166 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9442 tier-2
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- 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.