Cross
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Cross, 5th century C.E.. Bronze, 1 5/16 x 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (3.4 x 0.3 x 5.7 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, 16.134. (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.
Bronze cross-shaped object with rounded arms and circular incised/raised medallion-like bosses on each arm and at the center.
The image shows a small, corroded cross with four arms arranged in a simple cross form. Each arm has a circular motif/boss at its center; additional circular elements appear at the junction and on the upper and lower segments. The surfaces are heavily patinated with green and brown corrosion, with patches of red/brown staining. No clear hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are visible; the circular motifs resemble decorative or iconographic devices rather than readable text.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.134 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9411 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.