Large Earring with Lynx Head
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Large Earring with Lynx Head, 2nd century B.C.E.. Gold, banded jasper, Diam. 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.788E. (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 ornament in the form of a ring/hoop with a decorative open-work element at one side; no clear lynx head features are distinctly visible in the provided image.
The image shows a small, gold-colored object lying on a light grey fabric background. It appears to be a hoop or band with a thicker, sculpted terminal or clasp-like component on the left side, and a thin wire/looped structure forming the rest of the band. The object’s surface has molded details but the specific animal-head iconography (e.g., a lynx head) is not clearly resolved at this image resolution/angle, so the subject match to a “Lynx Head” earring cannot be confirmed visually. A white label with a handwritten or stamped number is visible near the bottom center; the digits appear to read “37.788E” (exactness uncertain). No legible hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present on the artifact itself.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.788E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117379 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.