Finger Ring with Inscription
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.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.320 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9577 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.