Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Small Model of Benu-Bird
Description
Caption: Small Model of Benu-Bird, ca. 1075–712 B.C.E.. Wax, 5/8 x 9/16 x 1 5/16 in. (1.6 x 1.4 x 3.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1809E.
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, brown, object resembling a scarab artifact.
The image shows a small artifact that appears to be a scarab, a type commonly found in ancient Egyptian artifacts. The object has a roughly ovoid shape and is brown in color. The surface shows textured details suggesting it might be carved or molded. Scarabs were often used as amulets or seals in ancient Egypt and typically inscribed with hieroglyphs.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
unclear
Connections
Found at
Egypt
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1809E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118329 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.