Small Plaque with Scarabeus in Relief
Description
Caption: Small Plaque with Scarabeus in Relief, 305 B.C.E. – 395 C.E.. Gold, 7/8 × 5/8 (2.2 × 1.6). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.800E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
Small golden rectangular relief plaque showing a central beetle-like figure identified as a scarab with stylized legs and a head.
The image shows a small, flat, gold-toned rectangular plaque photographed against a textured background. The plaque bears a raised relief of what appears to be a scarab (beetle) centered in the composition, with a rounded body, short legs at the sides, and a head/upper area suggested by darker recessed details. No borders, cartouches, or surrounding hieroglyphs are clearly visible due to the limited view and cropping. There are no legible inscriptions in Greek/Coptic/Arabic visible, and no hieroglyphic lines are discernible on the plaque surface in this image. The object’s surface shows contrast between shiny raised relief and darker recessed areas, consistent with metal relief work.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.800E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117389 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.