Earring
Description
Caption: Roman. Earring, 1–100 C.E.. Gold, amethyst or glass, Total length: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) Pendant: 1/2 x 3/8 in. (1.3 x 0.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.194. (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.
A small gold earring with a dangling teardrop-shaped amethyst or glass bead.
The image shows a single suspended earring: a thin gold loop at the top connects to a short length of twisted/linked gold chain. Below the chain is a teardrop/pendant-shaped stone or glass element with a dark, sea-green/blue-green translucent appearance. No inscriptions or hieroglyphs are visible, and there are no cartouches or royal names. The background is a uniform fabric surface, and the object is photographed isolated with no associated regalia or figures.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.194 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19254 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.