Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other
Large Chariot Wheel
Description
Caption: Large Chariot Wheel, ca. 185 B.C.E.. Wood (cypress), Diam. 14 15/16 in. (38 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1700E. (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 wooden yoke or similar object, featuring a central pillar and a horizontal beam.
The image depicts a crafted wooden piece, likely a yoke, characterized by a vertical cylindrical pillar intersecting with a horizontal beam. The wood appears rough and aged, with visible ropes securing the structure. The style suggests functional craftsmanship, possibly for agricultural or transport use.
agricultural
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1700E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118224 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.