Spindle
Description
Caption: Spindle, 313–642 C.E.. Wood, Diam. 1 5/8 x 9 1/16 in. (4.2 x 23 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1979E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University))
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 simple wooden tool with a cylindrical handle and a circular base.
The artifact appears to be a wooden tool or implement, featuring a long, slender shaft that widens into a circular base at one end. The style is plain and utilitarian, lacking any decorative elements. The object shows signs of age, with some wear on the wood surface. Its function is unclear from the image.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1979E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118482 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.