Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Seated Monkey as Amulet

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Description

Caption: Seated Monkey as Amulet, 30–395 C.E.. Faience, 1 5/16 × 9/16 × 9/16 in. (3.4 × 1.4 × 1.5 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, 16.580.43.

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 small, possibly ancient Egyptian statue of a seated person.

This artifact is a stone statue depicting a seated figure. The style is simplistic with minimal details, suggesting it could be a fragment or heavily worn. The figure's pose and form hint at an early artistic tradition, with no discernible attributes indicating specific clothing or adornment.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials StoneBronze

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.580.43 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9870 tier-2
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