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

Small Fragment of a Hairpin

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Description

Caption: Small Fragment of a Hairpin, 396–642 C.E.. Bone, 1/8 x 1 11/16 in. (0.3 x 4.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1416E. (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.

Photograph of a very small, narrow object fragment with a yellowish-brown exterior and a label card beneath it showing inventory numbers.

The image shows two main elements: (1) a small elongated fragment lying horizontally near the top-center of the photograph, with a dark central line and a yellowish-brown surface at the edges, suggesting a broken piece of a thin artifact; (2) a white paper label card beneath the fragment with handwritten black characters/numerals reading “37-416E”. No visible Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or decorative figural elements are apparent on the fragment itself at this resolution. The background appears to be a neutral grey fabric or matte surface used for catalog photography. The fragment’s form is consistent with a small implement component (e.g., a hairpin fragment), but no definitive hairpin features can be confirmed from the image alone.

unclear Late Antique Period (possibly) (per catalogue; cannot be confirmed from image) fragmentary
Materials yellowish-brown surface (likely organic)dark core/edge (unclear)
Visible text "37-416E (inventory/handling label; not clearly hieroglyphic)"

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

37-416E (inventory/handling label; not clearly hieroglyphic)

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1416E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117962 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.