Par of a Earring with Sheep's Head
Description
Caption: Par of a Earring with Sheep's Head, 3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, 9/16 × 9/16 in. (1.4 × 1.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.782E. (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 fragment shaped like an animal head, consistent with a sheep’s-head earring component.
The image shows a tiny gold object photographed against a light gray textured background. The form appears to be a stylized animal head, with a rounded cranium and short, curved protrusions that could represent ears or horns. Fine surface detailing includes shallow incisions or molded features suggesting facial elements. The piece is too small and incomplete to confirm the exact attachment method for an earring, and no clear paired element is visible in this single image. No hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscriptions are visible, and no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text appears.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.782E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117373 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.