Loop Earring with Gazelle's Head
Description
Caption: Loop Earring with Gazelle's Head, late 4th–early 3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, Diam. 7/8 in. (2.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.774E. (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 showing a looped band that terminates in a stylized animal-head form, with a dangling tag bearing handwritten inventory text.
The photograph shows a single small metal loop earring against a gray mesh-like background. The object is a thin, coiled gold band forming a circular/oval loop; at one end, the band bulges into a sculpted, stylized animal head silhouette (gazelle/head-like shape is suggested by the form but fine details are limited by image resolution). The other end is unfinished/irregularly wrapped. A separate paper/cloth tag is tied to the earring with a dark cord; on the tag there are handwritten markings in ink, including what appears to be a date/number sequence and additional characters. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, deity iconography, or other inscriptions are visible on the earring itself. The museum label text is handwritten and not ancient writing.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.774E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117365 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.