Chevron Bead
Description
Caption: Chevron Bead, ca. 1500–1800 C.E.. Glass, 1 × Diam. 1 in. (2.5 × 2.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1437E. (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, rounded glass bead with a dark blue and maroon (reddish) marbling and a chevron-like white zigzag pattern around the surface.
The image shows a single small object photographed on a light, textured background. The object is bead-shaped (rounded, lens-like) with a glossy surface. Its decoration consists of alternating dark blue areas and a reddish-brown banding, with prominent white zigzag/chevron motifs arranged in a repeating pattern around the bead. No carved or painted Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or readable letters are clearly visible; there is no legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text. The bead appears to be made of glass based on the visible translucency and glossy finish. No distinct deities or royal names/cartouches are identifiable from the visible markings.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1437E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117985 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.