Small Toilet Spoon or Stick
Description
Caption: Small Toilet Spoon or Stick, 395 B.C.E.–30 C.E.. Bronze, 3/8 × 3/16 × 4 in. (1 × 0.4 × 10.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.665E. (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 finely crafted ancient Egyptian cosmetic spoon or applicator.
The artifact is a slender, carefully shaped spoon, likely used for cosmetic purposes. It appears to be made from a dark material, potentially wood or another organic substance. The handle is elongated, leading to a rounded, flat end which would have been ideal for application of makeup or ointments. There are red markings or inscriptions near the base of the handle.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.665E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117274 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.