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

Lentoid Seal Amulet

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Description

Caption: Lentoid Seal Amulet, ca. 1630–1539 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 1/4 x 1/2 x 9/16 in. (0.6 x 1.2 x 1.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 44.123.171.

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 small inscribed scarab seal with hieroglyphs.

The image depicts a scarab-shaped artifact with inscribed hieroglyphs. It appears to be a typical example of an ancient Egyptian seal, possibly used for administrative or decorative purposes. The design includes identifiable hieroglyphic symbols that may represent royal or religious iconography.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom good
Materials stone
Signs scarab

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 44.123.171 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3478 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.