Finger Ring
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-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.
A gold ring with engraved hieroglyphic signs.
The image depicts a gold ring featuring several incised hieroglyphs on the flat surface, likely representing a name or title. The ring is made of a smooth metal band with an elliptical front face where the inscriptions are located. The style is simple yet elegant, typical of personal adornment items from ancient Egypt. The craftsmanship suggests a focus on the clarity of the hieroglyphs.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.257 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9516 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.