Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Green-Glazed Plaque

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Description

Caption: Green-Glazed Plaque, ca. 1390–1353 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 5/16 x 11/16 x 1 1/16 in. (0.8 x 1.7 x 2.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.66.62. (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 stone scarab depicting hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The image shows a small scarab-shaped artifact featuring engraved hieroglyphs. The artifact is measured against a ruler, suggesting careful documentation. It likely served an amulet or symbolic function, with inscriptions possibly indicating a name or religious significance.

hieroglyphic only unknown good
Materials stone
Signs an eye sign unknown ×2

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 48.66.62 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 61326 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.