Cross
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Cross, 5th–7th century C.E.. Iron, 13/16 × 13/16 in. (2.1 × 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, 16.370. (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.
A small, corroded metal cross with a bulbous, roughly symmetrical form and a short flattened stem.
The image shows a standalone object photographed against a plain light background. The object is a cross with four arms of similar rounded/club-like ends. The central vertical bar terminates at a pointed or slightly flared lower finial, and the top ends in a broader rounded knob. Surface wear and dark corrosion are visible throughout, obscuring fine details. No carving, inlaid decoration, or clear inscriptions are visible on the object’s surface. No clear hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text appear in the image. No royal cartouches are visible. Although the museum catalogue describes it as iron, the image only shows general corroded metal without a definitive way to confirm the specific material from the photo alone.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.370 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9623 tier-2
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- 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.