Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other
Cowroid
Description
Caption: Cowroid, ca. 1539–1075 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 3/16 x 3/8 x 9/16 in. (0.5 x 0.9 x 1.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X626.31. (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.
The image shows a small Egyptian scarab artifact.
The artifact is a small scarab, an amulet shaped like a beetle. Scarabs are typically crafted from stone or faience and often inscribed with hieroglyphs on their flat surface. This particular scarab is oval-shaped and appears to have inscriptions on its underside, characteristic of the style used for seals and amulets in ancient Egypt.
decorative
unclear
good
Materials
unknown
Connections
Found at
Egypt
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession X626.31 tier-2
- BKM-Object 120391 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.