Large Loop Earring
Description
Caption: Large Loop Earring, 2nd–1st century B.C.E.. Gold, onyx, sardonyx (possibly), Greatest diam.: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.784E. (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 small gold loop earring composed of a circular hoop with three hanging bead-like elements in light (white) and dark (black) colors.
A thin circular hoop in gold forms the main loop. At one side of the hoop, a short connector holds two or three small dangling beads/segments: one appears light-colored (white) and another appears dark/black, separated by small gold elements. The beads look polished and gem-like with smooth oval/cylindrical profiles. No visible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions can be clearly seen on the earring in this photograph, and no deities or royal names are depicted.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.784E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117375 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.