Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Scarab
Description
Caption: Scarab, 664–525 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 1/4 x 3/8 x 7/16 in. (0.6 x 0.9 x 1.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X626.30.
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.
The image shows a small oval object with an engraved scene.
The artifact appears to be a scarab or seal with a depiction in low relief. The style includes fine lines that might represent figures or symbols. The object is set against a plain background with a ruler for scale, indicating its small size.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
bird
seated figure
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession X626.30 tier-2
- BKM-Object 120390 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.