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Ornate Earring with Lion's Head

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.787E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.787E
Find spot: Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Date: late 4th–3rd century B.C.E.
Date range: 399 BCE – 201 BCE
Materials: ['Gold']
Height: 2.3 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Catalogue description: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Ornate Earring with Lion's Head, late 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, Diam. 7/8 in. (2.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.787E. (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 ornate gold earring ornament with a lion’s head motif and a curved band-like form beneath it.

A gold-colored earring component is photographed against a gray patterned background. The upper portion is a molded lion’s head, facing forward, with a prominent mane. Below the head, a curved gold element forms a hook or arched support, ending in a small vertical segment. The underside includes a loop-like section with visible translucent/whitish material (likely mounting string or modern suspension cord) connecting to the earring area. On the right, a pale beige museum label tag is attached; handwritten blue ink text reads “37 78 T E” followed by additional cursive characters that are not fully legible. No clear Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, or Coptic text appear on the earring itself.

decorative Ptolemaic Period (catalogued); exact date uncertain from image alone good

Materials Goldtranslucent/whitish mounting cord or adhesivepaper label/tag with ink

Visible text "Handwritten on label tag: “37 78 TE” (remaining cursive text unclear). No inscription visible on the artifact."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Handwritten on label tag: “37 78 TE” (remaining cursive text unclear). No inscription visible on the artifact.

Connections

Found at Upper Egypt

Materials Gold Silver

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.787E tier-2
BKM-Object 117378 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.
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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.