Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Small Amulet Representing the Soul as a Human-Headed Bird
Description
Caption: Small Amulet Representing the Soul as a Human-Headed Bird, 664–343 B.C.E.. Gold, 3/4 × 5/8 in. (1.9 × 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.799E. (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 small, gold-colored, silhouetted figure pendant on a textured background.
The image depicts a small pendant in the shape of a human figure, possibly representing an ancient Egyptian deity or symbol. The pendant is gold-colored, suggesting it may be made of gold or a similar material and appears to be flat with a loop at the top for suspension. The background is a textured, neutral fabric.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
gold
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.799E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117388 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.