Medical Amulet for Good Digestion
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Gnostic Caption: Gnostic. Medical Amulet for Good Digestion, 2nd–4th century C.E.. Steatite (?), 13/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2 × 3.6 cm). 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, 16.166. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 heart/teardrop-shaped Egyptian amulet with a suspension hole near the top and faint engraved markings on the front.
The object appears as a compact, blackish/gray carved amulet with a pointed top and rounded body, resembling a heart or stylized drop. A circular suspension hole is drilled through the upper portion, indicating it was likely worn on a cord. The front surface contains low-contrast, worn incised/relief decoration or possible hieroglyphic-like lines, but the details are too faint and indistinct in this image to securely read individual signs. No clearly identifiable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The back is not visible clearly enough to assess additional iconography or inscription.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.166 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9442 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.