Heart Scarab
Description
Caption: Heart Scarab, ca. 1075–712 B.C.E.. Hematite, 1/2 x 11/16 x 1 in. (1.3 x 1.8 x 2.5 cm) Weight: 14.7 g. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.529E.
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 depicts a scarab amulet with hieroglyphic engravings.
The artifact is an oval-shaped scarab amulet made from a dark stone or possibly faience, measuring approximately 1.5 inches in length, as indicated by the adjacent ruler. The upper surface features multiple lines of hieroglyphic inscriptions, likely inscribed into the surface. The style is characteristic of small amulets used in ancient Egypt, possibly for religious or protective purposes.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.529E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117172 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.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.