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-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.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.43 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9870 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.