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

Large Loop Earring

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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.

decorative Ptolemaic Period (per catalogue; image does not provide definitive chronological markers) good
Materials goldwhite stone (likely onyx/sardonyx or similar; exact identification unclear)black stone (likely onyx/sardonyx or similar; exact identification unclear)

Connections

Materials Gold

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.784E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117375 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.
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