Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Inlay of a Lion - Headed Uraeus

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1150E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 37.1150E
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Persian Period or Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 27, or later
Date: 525–30 B.C.E.
Date range: 525 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['Glass']
Height: 3.2 cm
Width: 1.7 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Caption: Inlay of a Lion - Headed Uraeus, 525–30 B.C.E.. Glass, 1 1/4 x 11/16 x 3/16 in. (3.2 x 1.7 x 0.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1150E. (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, reddish-brown inlay/fragment shaped like a crouching or seated animal head with pronounced muzzle and mane-like contours.

The image shows a single detached object photographed against a light grey, textured background. The object is roughly oval/rounded and resembles the upper portion of a lion-headed or feline figure; a protruding snout/muzzle and a raised, curved form along the top/side suggest stylized fur or a mane. The surface appears smooth to slightly matte with minor irregular edges, consistent with a small decorative inlay element. Below the artifact is a white label with handwritten ink; no printed museum text is visible. The label text appears to be a number/date-like sequence (partially legible). No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or deity attributes are visible on the artifact itself in this photograph.

decorative Persian Period or Ptolemaic Period (per catalogue; image does not provide decisive chronological indicators) fragmentary

Materials glass

Visible text "On the white label beneath the object: appears to read '37.1150E' (handwritten; uncertain exact characters)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

On the white label beneath the object: appears to read '37.1150E' (handwritten; uncertain exact characters).

Connections

Found at Saqqara

Materials Glass

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1150E tier-2
BKM-Object 117724 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.
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.