Finger Ring
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Finger Ring, 5th–7th century C.E.. Iron, 1/4 × Diam. 7/8 in. (0.7 × 2.2 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, 16.152. (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.
Photograph of a small circular finger ring with a tightly twisted/rope-like band, shown against a textured gray background.
The image shows a single metal ring photographed from above/at slight angle. The band has a twisted, braid-like design around the circumference, producing a rope/coil texture. A small red-brown spot is visible on the right side of the band, likely corrosion or rust; otherwise the metal appears dark/blackened. No decorative bezel, gemstone, cartouche, or inscriptions are visible. The background is a uniform woven or grid-like fabric/mesh surface. No hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text appears anywhere in the frame.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.152 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9427 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.