Circular Weight
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Circular Weight, 5th–7th century C.E.. Bronze, 1/4 x Diam. 1 1/4 in., 0.1 lb. (0.7 x 3.1 cm, 51.62 g). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1698E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
A circular artifact featuring a central Christian cross symbol.
The artifact is a circular object, likely made of bronze, with a prominent Christian cross symbol at its center. The cross is surrounded by decorative engravings, possibly depicting a laurel wreath. The style suggests a late Roman or early Coptic influence, and the overall composition is relatively simple and unadorned aside from the central symbol.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1698E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118222 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.
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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.