Comb
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Comb, 395–642 C.E.. Wood, 3 3/16 x 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (8.1 x 1 x 11.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.670E. (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.
A double-sided wooden comb from ancient Egypt.
This artifact is a double-sided comb made from wood, featuring a fine tooth side and a coarser tooth side. The comb's design indicates practical use likely for hair grooming. The wooden material suggests it may have been used by someone of a moderate social class given the durability and availability of wood. The style is simple, with no decorative elements, indicating everyday use.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.670E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117279 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.