Part of a Very Large Earring with Bull's Head
Description
Caption: Part of a Very Large Earring with Bull's Head, 3rd–2nd century B.C.E.. Gold, Length: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.781E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A golden artifact depicting an animal head, potentially a bull, adorned with intricate details.
The artifact is a finely crafted piece made of gold, shaped in the form of a bull's head. It is decorated with detailed patterns and features, including a pair of curved horns. The craftsmanship suggests it was a decorative or ceremonial object, possibly used in a religious or royal context. The spiral design and ornate features demonstrate advanced metalworking skills.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.781E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117372 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.