Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian) · jewelry

scarab

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 small, oval brown scarab-like object with worn incised markings on its surface and handwritten/inked inventory numbers on the left side.

The image shows a single, oval insect-shaped amulet. The top surface is mottled reddish-brown with areas of patina and wear. Incised lines and shapes are visible on the face (hard to make out precisely), suggesting the presence of carved ornamentation typical of a scarab. Along the lower left/center is a clearly legible black marking reading “SC-214” (appearing like a collection/catalog/inventory number rather than an Egyptian inscription). No clearly identifiable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or deity iconography can be confidently read from the worn carved area in this image. A scale/photographic frame with black-and-white calibration bars appears to the right of the artifact; no other inscriptions are visible.

decorative unknown (scarab amulets are associated with the Egyptian Late Period through Ptolemaic/Roman eras, but the specific period cannot be determined from this image) poor

Materials brown stone or ceramic (uncertain) with reddish-brown patina

Signs collection/inventory marking "SC-214"

Visible text "SC-214"

Connections

Found at Egypt

Materials Stone

About this record's data

From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Fitzwilliam Museum — Department of Antiquities (Egyptian).
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.
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