Textile
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Textile, 4th–7th century C.E.. Flax, wool, 2 3/8 x 2 in. (6 x 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X930. (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 colorful textile fragment with a cross-like pattern.
The artifact is a fabric piece featuring a symmetrical design with red, green, and beige colors. The woven textile displays a cross-like composition with intricate detailing, typical of late antique or early medieval Coptic textiles. The weaving technique and color scheme suggest it might have been used for decorative purposes, possibly as part of a garment or home textile.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession X930 tier-2
- BKM-Object 121826 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.