Cross Pendant
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Cross Pendant, 5th century C.E.. Bronze, 5/8 × 1/16 × 1 in. (1.6 × 0.2 × 2.6 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, 16.135. (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 small, ancient cross with circular patterns.
The artifact is a small bronze cross featuring circular motifs at each terminal and the center. Its surface displays significant patina, indicating age and oxidation typical of ancient metal artifacts. The design is simple yet distinct, with each arm of the cross equally proportioned.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.135 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9412 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.