Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Finger Ring with Inscription

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Finger Ring with Inscription, 5th–6th century C.E.. Gold, Diam. 5/8 in. (1.6 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, 16.320. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University))

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 gold ring featuring inscriptions and symbols.

This is a gold ring depicting a series of symbols and possibly letters on its surface. It appears to have a small raised star-shaped symbol followed by an inscription. The style suggests a blend of artistic motifs, possibly influenced by different cultures.

decorative unknown good
Materials gold
Signs star
Visible text "PNOY"

Connections

Materials Gold

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.320 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9577 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.
  • 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.