Lion Scarab of Amenhotep III
Description
Caption: Lion Scarab of Amenhotep III, ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 1 × 1 13/16 × 2 13/16 in. (2.5 × 4.6 × 7.1 cm) Weight: 0.2 lb. (112.2 g). Brooklyn Museum, 34.1300.
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.
Stone scarab-shaped object carved in relief, showing dense rows of incised decoration and apparent hieroglyphic text on its face.
The image shows a single, roughly oval scarab/inscribed ornament viewed from the front. The surface is heavily worn and mottled, with a darkened carved field and lighter background. Across the top and middle there are closely packed incised lines and glyph-like forms, including rectangular and cartouche-like blocks and what look like stylized figures/signs, arranged in horizontal registers. No clearly legible names, cartouches, or royal titulary can be confidently read due to wear, blur, and the small size of the carved signs. The back and underside are not visible. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No explicit deities are identifiable from the visible signs, and the object’s intended motif (lion scarab) cannot be confirmed or contradicted from this image alone because the relief lion features are not clearly distinguishable here.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 34.1300 tier-2
- BKM-Object 38671 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.