Cross Pendant
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Cross Pendant, 7th century C.E.. Shell (Mother-of-pearl), 9/16 × 3/16 × 1 1/16 in. (1.5 × 0.4 × 2.7 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, 16.402. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University))
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.
The image shows a small pendant shaped like a cross with a circular suspension hole at the top.
The object is a simple cross-form pendant viewed from the front. At the top is an oval/rounded ring-like opening for suspension, framed by a shallow border. The cross arms extend downward, with the center decorated by incised/raised lines forming a crisscross (X) motif. The left and right arms include rectangular and line patterns resembling ladder-like or striped sections, and the lower portion has parallel vertical grooves. The surface appears pale and glossy, consistent with a shell or mother-of-pearl artifact, and the edges are smooth. No legible hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible, and there are no cartouches or royal names. No specific deity iconography is clearly identifiable from the abstract decorative layout.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.402 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9654 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.