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-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 bronze cross-shaped object viewed front-on against a plain background.
The artifact is a bronze cross with a rounded top and bottom lobes, and horizontally extended arms forming a simple Greek/Latin cross silhouette. The surface is worn and dark green-brown from patination, with patches suggesting corrosion or surface loss. No attached loop, suspension hardware, or detailed iconography is clearly visible in this image. The form is undecorated beyond its shape; no legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other script are apparent, and no distinct deity figurework can be confirmed. The object’s material appearance (patinated bronze) fits the catalogue’s material assignment. The image does not show any evidence that contradicts the catalogue title 'Cross'.
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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.