Cross
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Cross, 5th century C.E.. Bronze, 1 3/8 × 15/16 in. (3.5 × 2.4 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, 16.368. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University))
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
An ankh-shaped artifact, a common symbol in ancient Egyptian culture.
The artifact is a bronze cross with rounded ends, depicting the ankh, a symbol often associated with life and immortality. The patina and wear suggest age, indicating it may have been used or displayed. Despite its age, the shape remains well-defined.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.368 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9621 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.