Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Motto Scarab
Description
Caption: Motto Scarab, ca. 1630–1539 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 5/16 x 1/2 x 13/16 in. (0.8 x 1.3 x 2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X626.38. (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.
An Egyptian cartouche on display in a museum.
The object is a cartouche, a carved oval with a horizontal line at one end, often used to signify royal names in ancient Egypt. It appears to be inscribed with hieroglyphs, possibly denoting a pharaoh's name. The cartouche is mounted on a stand for display purposes.
royal
unknown
good
Materials
unknown
Connections
Found at
Egypt
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession X626.38 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4200 tier-2
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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