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-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.
A small bronze cross pendant with a flared cross shape and circular medallion-like elements on the arms and center.
The image shows a patinated metal pendant shaped like a cross with four broad arms tapering slightly at the ends. Each arm contains a recessed circular form (medallion/disk) near its outer area, while the central shaft also includes a larger circular recessed disk. The surface is heavily oxidized/green-blue patina (corrosion) and the details of any inner decoration or lettering are not clearly legible from the photograph. No clear hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No cartouches or identifiable royal names are apparent.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.135 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9412 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.