Part of a Earring in the Form of a Bull's Head
Description
Caption: Part of a Earring in the Form of a Bull's Head, 3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, 3/16 x 13/16 in. (0.5 x 2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.779E. (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.
Small gold component shaped like a bull’s head, likely part of an earring, with a hanging loop at the back and a modern inventory label attached.
The image shows a small, rounded gold object with detailed relief modeling of a bull’s head: a muzzle and snout, a band across the forehead, and short horns. The head is oriented upward and connected to a loop and small suspension element beneath it, consistent with an earring component. A modern rectangular museum/collection tag is attached to the piece by a metal loop; the tag bears printed/handwritten numbers and a partial letter (visible as “3727” and “E” with some additional markings), but this is not ancient text. No carved hieroglyphs are visible on the artifact itself; the only readable writing is on the modern label.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.779E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117370 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.