Heart Scarab
Description
Object Label: The Egyptians worked with gold and semiprecious stones from earliest times. They mined both types of material in the desert east of the Nile and in present-day Sudan, called “Nubia” in ancient times after the ancient Egyptian word for gold (nub). Clearly, objects made from these high-value materials were available only to the highest ranks of society. Caption: Heart Scarab, 664–525 B.C.E.. Steatite, sheet gold, 7/8 x 1 7/16 x 2 1/16 in. (2.3 x 3.6 x 5.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.717E. (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 carved stone scarab with gold edging.
The image depicts a stone scarab amulet with detailed carving on the upper surface, surrounded by an ornate gold setting. The scarab's body is well-defined, featuring meticulously carved lines to represent the beetle's natural anatomy. The gold edging complements the dark stone, indicating a piece of high status or ceremonial use.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.717E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4087 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.