Pin with Mounted Bead
Description
Caption: Pin with Mounted Bead, 30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Gold, glass, Total length: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm) Bead: 3/8 x 3/16 in. (1 x 0.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.221. (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 pin-like object with a red-and-black bead-like top mounted on a slender, gold-toned metal shaft.
The image shows a single slender pin or needle with a rounded bead/pendant head. The head is decorated in red and black with small lighter dots or highlights, resembling a mosaic/glass bead. The shaft appears gold-toned and is vertically oriented against a light gray patterned background. No clearly readable inscriptions, cartouches, or iconographic figures are visible. There are no discernible deity attributes, and the object does not present Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text in the visible area. The catalogue description of a 'Pin with Mounted Bead' fits the overall form: a pin with a bead mounted at the top; the visible red/black decorative elements are consistent with glass bead decoration, and the shaft appears consistent with gold mounting.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.221 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19273 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.