Double Comb
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Double Comb, 5th century C.E.. Ivory, 3 1/2 × 2 3/16 × 1/4 in. (8.9 × 5.5 × 0.6 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, 16.168. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
Small ivory double-comb with a rectangular spine decorated in relief on the top band and a row of individual tooth slots below.
The image shows a handheld grooming implement consisting of two rows of short teeth formed from the ends of separated vertical plates. The upper part is a rectangular, flat spine with incised/relief decoration: a continuous top register with small repeating marks and a central framed scene strip containing multiple human/figure-like forms in low relief. Below the decorative band, there is a thick divider and then the tooth region where narrow vertical slots/teeth projections are visible, creating the characteristic double-comb structure. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic scripts are clearly readable in this photograph. The surfaces appear light-colored and carved, consistent with an ivory object; no other materials are visible.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.168 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9444 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.
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