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Cross Pendant

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Description

Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Cross Pendant, 5th–7th century C.E.. Bronze, 7/8 × 9/16 in. (2.2 × 1.5 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, 16.371. (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.

Bronze cross pendant with a four-armed, roughly symmetrical form, featuring rounded terminals and a central vertical stem.

The object is a cast bronze pendant shaped like a cross. It has a vertical bar topped by a broad, flaring head and tapering down to a narrower lower element. Two horizontal arms extend left and right at mid-height; each arm ends in a rounded, slightly flattened terminal. The surface is dark brown/black with areas of corrosion and pitting, and the metal edges show wear consistent with age and handling. No clear engraved hieroglyphs, cartouches, or readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible in the provided view. No distinct figure or deity attributes are discernible beyond the Christian-style cross form, though the exact iconographic context remains unclear.

decorative Late Antique Period (as catalogued); style consistent with a simple cross pendant good
Materials Bronze

Connections

Materials Bronze

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.371 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9624 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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