Heart Scarab
Description
Caption: Heart Scarab, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E., or much later. Serecite?, 7/8 × 1 5/16 × 1 15/16 in. (2.2 × 3.3 × 4.9 cm) Weight: 0.1 lb. (61.4 g). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.490E. (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 scarab artifact, likely made of stone, placed next to a scale.
The image depicts a single scarab artifact, intricately carved, likely from a stone material. The scarab is oval-shaped and shows detailed carving on its surface that may depict hieroglyphs or decorative patterns typical of scarabs used in ancient Egypt as amulets or seals. The artifact is placed next to a ruler for scale comparison.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.490E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117134 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.