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

Magic Gem

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Caption: Magic Gem, 100–300 C.E.. Jasper, 13/16 x 5/8 x 1/16 in. (2.1 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1756E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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 black oval seal with red numerical inscriptions.

The artifact is an oval-shaped black seal, possibly made of stone or another hard material, featuring a series of red numbers inscribed on its surface. The style appears modern, possibly for cataloging or archival purposes, suggesting non-ancient origin or usage.

modern replica unknown modern_reproduction
Materials unknown
Visible text "37154"

Connections

Found at Lower Egypt
Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1756E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 118276 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.