Necklace
Description
Object Label: The Egyptians worked with gold and semiprecious stones from earliest times. They mined both types of material in the desert east of the Nile and in present-day Sudan, called “Nubia” in ancient times after the ancient Egyptian word for gold (nub). Clearly, objects made from these high-value materials were available only to the highest ranks of society. Caption: Necklace, 1st century C.E.. Gold, beryl, silver, Necklace: 13 9/16 in. (34.4 cm) long; Bes figure: 1 x 7.16 in. (2.6 x 1.1 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, 16.149. (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.
The image shows a gold necklace composed of small green/blue stone beads linked in a chain and centered by a small carved pendant/ornament shaped like an animal- or deity-like figure.
A circular necklace lies against a plain light background. The necklace has a gold-colored chain with a decorative gold clasp and scrolling filigree at the top. Along both sides are evenly spaced rectangular/cuboid segmented beads in a greenish-blue color (possibly glass or a stone such as beryl). Near the bottom center hangs a small gold-toned pendant/figural element with a stylized face/upper form, with short side elements suggesting arms or projections; the overall motif is more ornamental than clearly readable iconography. No cartouches or hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible. The object appears complete and well-preserved, with consistent bead condition and intact metalwork.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.149 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3151 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.