Finger Ring in Form of a Serpent
Description
Caption: Finger Ring in Form of a Serpent, 1st century C.E.. Gold, 1 3/16 in. (3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.740E. (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.
Photograph of a small gold finger ring, open in view, with a stylized serpent/snake form suggested at the band’s terminals near the bottom.
The image shows a circular gold ring photographed against a light, textured background. The band is plain along most of its circumference, with a slightly raised, sculpted section near the lower part that appears serpent-like (a head/coil suggestion), matching the catalogue’s identification as a serpent-form ring. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or textual inscriptions are visible on the ring surface in this image. There are no visible attached stones or enamel; the object appears uniformly metallic gold. No deities are depicted in a clear, emblematic way beyond the animal/snake motif implied by the ring’s form. Condition appears good; the ring is intact with no obvious breaks or major deformation in this view.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.740E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117335 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.