Loop Earring with Gazelle's Head
Description
Caption: Loop Earring with Gazelle's Head, late 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, 7/8 in. (2.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.771E. (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 loop earring fragment or complete earring shaped as a loop with a tiny animal-head element at the top, attached to a cream-colored museum label with handwritten/printed characters.
The image shows a gold loop forming a circular/hoop shape, with at the upper portion a small sculpted head-like finial (appearing animal-like, but the exact species is unclear from this photo). The loop includes a small attachment/connector at the top and a darker hollow element near the finial. Below the hoop the earring is partially cropped/obscured, but the top decorative component is prominent. A cream museum label is attached directly beneath the hoop; it bears large black handwritten numerals/letters and a blue ink annotation (illegible). No cartouches, deity names, or carved hieroglyphs are visible on the object itself in this view. The background is a gray textured surface, likely packing or support material.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.771E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117362 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.