Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Small Loop Earring with Lion's Head

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Description

Caption: Small Loop Earring with Lion's Head, late 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, Diameter: 11/16 in. (1.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.777E. (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 featuring a lion’s head form at one end and a twisted band loop continuing from it.

The image shows a small, gold-colored metal ornament lying on a light gray, textured background. The object has a circular/looped band made of twisted metal strands, with one end shaped into a stylized lion’s head. The lion head appears as a small relief-like element with a face and mane pattern; the details are limited by the viewing angle and resolution, but the overall lion-headed motif is clearly suggested. No inscriptions or readable hieroglyphs are visible, and there are no cartouches or royal names discernible. There is no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text visible.

decorative Late Ptolemaic or Roman Period (per catalogue; exact dating unclear from image alone) good
Materials Gold

Connections

Materials Gold

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.777E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117368 tier-2
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