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

Finger Ring

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Description

Caption: Finger Ring, late 19th century. Gold, 5/16 × Diam. 13/16 in. (0.8 × 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.257. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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.

A small gold signet-style finger ring with a raised bezel showing incised/engraved glyph-like marks on the front.

The object is a circular gold finger ring photographed against a gray textured background. A white string is looped around the top and passes behind the ring. The bezel at the front contains dark engraved line-work resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs or pseudo-glyphs; the exact individual signs are not fully legible at this resolution. No clearly identifiable cartouche, royal titulary, or standard deity iconography can be confirmed. There is no visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text. The overall appearance is consistent with the catalogue’s identification as a ring and with gold as the material, though the period cannot be securely determined from the image alone.

decorative Modern, probably (as catalogued); exact antiquity/age unclear from image alone good
Materials Gold
Signs Unidentified glyph-like engraving on bezel ×6

Connections

Materials Gold

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.257 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9516 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.