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-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 rectangular ivory object fragment with decorative border bands of incised dotted and wavy motifs and a central central motif shaped like an eye or flower.
The image shows a flat, rectangular piece with a worn top edge and a slightly irregular lower edge, photographed against a dark background. The surface is incised with repeating decorative bands: thin horizontal lines containing small dotted marks (or looped elements) separated by thicker bands with wave-like or semicircular tooling. In the middle of the object there are two symmetrical, pale incisions forming a central motif that resembles an eye or stylized flower. There is no clear hieroglyphic text, cartouche, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic writing visible; the marks appear purely decorative. The object appears to be an upper portion of a comb (consistent with the catalogue), though the full comb teeth are not visible beyond a fragmentary, jagged top edge.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.62E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116795 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.