Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Scarab with Magical Hieroglyphs
Description
Caption: Scarab with Magical Hieroglyphs, ca. 1630–1539 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 7/16 x 5/16 x 5/8 in. (1.1 x 0.8 x 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.716. (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.
This is an image of a scarab seal depicting hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image shows a small scarab seal mounted on a pin. The surface of the scarab is decorated with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style is typical of personal seals used in ancient Egypt, with a focus on detailed symbolic representation. The seal shows signs of age and wear.
hieroglyphic only
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 07.447.716 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4231 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.