Mold
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Mold, 5th–7th century C.E.. Steatite, 1 9/16 × 7/16 × 2 7/8 in. (3.9 × 1.1 × 7.3 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, 16.233. (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, dark steatite mold-like object with a circular, wheel/ankh-like emblem and radiating segments carved in relief on the front face.
The artifact is shown front-on against a light background. The main face has a central circular medallion enclosing an eight-lobed or flower-like symbol with an eye-like oval at the top and several circular elements around it. The medallion is surrounded by a ring of segmented marks resembling a decorative border; additional chevron/segment motifs appear to the sides and within the lower part of the frame. At the top edge, there is a recessed or flattened area suggesting a molding/handling surface consistent with a cast-mold object. No clear hieroglyphic inscriptions, cartouches, or textual scripts are visible. The material appears to be dark steatite/stone with weathering and pitted surface wear. A small chip or detached fragment is visible near the lower right area, indicating damage or loss.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.233 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9499 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.