Ring in the Form of a Coiled Serpent
Description
Provenance: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Ring in the Form of a Coiled Serpent, 3rd century B.C.E.. Gold, glass, 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (1.9 × 4.4 cm) mount: 1 3/4 × 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (4.4 × 1.9 × 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.785E. (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.
The image shows a small gold finger ring shaped as a coiled serpent, with the serpent’s head emerging at one end and a dark gem-like eye detail.
A gold-colored object is shown on a plain neutral gray background. The ring’s band is formed by a tightly coiled serpent body with multiple raised, ribbed/segmented bands wrapping around. At the outer end of the coil, the serpent head faces outward: the head is rounded with stylized facial features and a single dark circular inset forming the eye. The serpent mouth region is suggested by a projecting, darker outline or opening; a small pointed element may indicate the tongue or snout extension. No clear hieroglyphic or inscriptional text is visible in the image, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present. A small dark, glossy element at the eye appears consistent with glass or a gem-like inset; other glass components are not clearly discernible. Overall workmanship and form are consistent with a Ptolemaic-style gold serpent ring as catalogued.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.785E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117376 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.