Seated Monkey as Amulet
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-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.
Small greenish faience figure of a seated monkey holding a leg/posed with hands near the body, shown against a neutral background.
The object appears to be a miniature molded faience amulet or figurine depicting a seated monkey. The monkey is shown in profile/three-quarter view with a rounded head, defined facial features, and a compact torso. One arm is bent upward toward the upper body while the other is positioned low near the legs; the legs are drawn together in a seated posture. The base is thick and integrated into the figure. Surface is worn with loss of fine detail and patchy discoloration consistent with age and handling. No clearly readable hieroglyphs or other scripts are visible on the surface in the provided view. The background is plain and the lighting is raking, emphasizing the relief and pitting typical of faience.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.43 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9870 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.