Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Ornate Earring with Lion's Head Ptolemaic PeriodUpper Egypt
Description
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
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
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.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.787E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117378 tier-2
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