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-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small, intricately crafted ornamental object with a gold shaft and green decorative end.
The artifact is an ancient Egyptian ornamental pin or amulet featuring a slender gold shaft topped with a green decorative element, likely made of faience. The craftsmanship shows fine goldsmith work with attention to detail, particularly in the shaping of the green section, which may suggest it was used for personal adornment or as a status symbol.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.221 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19273 tier-2
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.