Eye Amulet
Description
Object Label: The Egyptians worked with gold and semiprecious stones from earliest times. They mined both types of material in the desert east of the Nile and in present-day Sudan, called “Nubia” in ancient times after the ancient Egyptian word for gold (nub). Clearly, objects made from these high-value materials were available only to the highest ranks of society. Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Eye Amulet, 525–404 B.C.E.. Gold, 9/16 × 11/16 × 3/16 in. (1.5 × 1.8 × 0.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.795E. (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 gold artifact shaped like a horn or similar object.
The artifact is a small, gold object that appears to have been shaped with precision. Its form suggests a horn-like projection, though its exact purpose is unclear. The surface is smooth with some textural variations, indicating possible wear or crafting techniques.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.795E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4100 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.