Balance or Weight
Description
Caption: Balance or Weight, 3rd–4th century C.E. (probably). Bronze, 2 5/8 × 1 7/16 × 1 in., 0.1 lb. (6.7 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm, 46.35 g). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.325.
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 dark metal object shaped like a seated/standing figure with a rounded body and raised headpiece, photographed against a light fabric background.
The image shows a compact, dark, bronze-like artifact with a bulging, rounded body tapering slightly toward the base. The top forms a head with facial features (eyes/nose/mouth) and a projecting head element resembling a crown or headdress. The figure appears to have a staff/rod-like element or attribute held near the chest, and a band or garment lines may be suggested by incised grooves. No clear balance/weighing mechanism (e.g., scale beam, hooks, or calibration marks) is visible in the photo; instead, the object looks figural. There is no legible hieroglyphic/Greek/Coptic/Arabic text visible on the surface at this resolution. The background is a light-colored textile or paper.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.325 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9581 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.