Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Top of Comb
Description
Caption: Top of Comb, 395–642 C.E.. Ivory, 3 1/16 × 2 1/16 × 3/16 in. (7.8 × 5.2 × 0.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.62E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
An incised bone or ivory inlay piece with lines and dots.
The object is a curved piece of bone or ivory, intricately incised with a series of horizontal and vertical lines intersected by dotted patterns. The craftsmanship suggests attention to symmetry and may have been used as a decorative inlay, possibly in a box or piece of furniture.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
ivory
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.62E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116795 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.