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Bracelet with Uninscribed Scarab

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 26.47. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 26.47
Find spot: Abydos, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: early Dynasty 12
Date: ca. 1938–1875 B.C.E.
Date range: 1938 BCE – 1875 BCE
Materials: ['Amethyst', 'green feldspar']
Height: 1.3 cm
Width: 19.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Bracelet with Uninscribed Scarab (26.47). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/34140

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Caption: Bracelet with Uninscribed Scarab, ca. 1938–1875 B.C.E.. Amethyst, green feldspar, 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (1.3 × 19 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society , 26.47.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Photograph of a beaded bracelet consisting of a central rounded/oval turquoise-green element flanked by small polished beads and a single light orange-pink heart/teardrop-shaped bead at the lower front.

The object appears to be a simple string of spherical or near-spherical small beads forming a circular bracelet. At the top center is a larger, rounded oval spacer/pendant-like element in a light green to turquoise hue, with faint internal veining. The remaining beads are mostly small, light purple to lilac and some translucent peach/orange. At the lower front hangs or is set a single larger heart/teardrop-shaped bead (light orange-pink) that anchors the composition. No scarab figure is visible clearly in this image, and no hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other text are present. The surface finish looks polished and smooth, consistent with worked stone or glass-bead materials. The overall style matches jewelry rather than a standalone amulet carved with an exposed figure, though the catalog title refers specifically to a bracelet with an uninscribed scarab; the scarab component is not discernible here.

decorative Middle Kingdom (as per catalogue ground truth; image alone not sufficient to confirm) good

Materials green stone (likely green feldspar as catalogued; exact identification unclear from photo)purple stone beads (catalogued as amethyst; exact identification unclear from photo)light orange-pink bead (material unclear)translucent/polished bead material (unclear whether same stone as catalogued)

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Found at Abydos

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 26.47 tier-2
BKM-Object 3295 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.