Heart Scarab
Description
Caption: Heart Scarab, 664–332 B.C.E.. Stone, 1 x 1 5/8 x 2 3/16 in. (2.6 x 4.2 x 5.6 cm) Weight: 0.2 lb. (95.4 g). 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, 16.409. (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.
A small scarab amulet depicted with intricate carvings.
The artifact is a greenish stone scarab amulet, crafted in the traditional shape of a beetle with detailed carving on the surface. The top features a carved, naturalistic body of the scarab with legs painstakingly detailed along the sides. The flat underside appears to contain hieroglyphic inscriptions carved into it, which were typical for scarabs used as seals or amulets in ancient Egypt.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.409 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9661 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.
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