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-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 textile fragment composed of interwoven thread shows a symmetrical, cross-like arrangement with multicolored stitched areas (red and green) on a pale ground.
The image depicts a piece of textile laid flat against a light background. Multiple rounded lobes and a central vertical motif form a roughly star or cross-like composition. The field is primarily beige/tan with thick stitched contours in dark teal/green. Several rectangular or oval sections are filled with red yarn/thread and are separated by green/teal outlines and pale beige areas. The edges appear fringed with loose fibers, suggesting a fragment or section of a larger textile. No identifiable Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic script are visible; the pattern appears decorative or functional rather than textual. No specific deities or royal names can be confirmed from the visible design.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession X930 tier-2
- BKM-Object 121826 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.