Small Coffin for a Mummified Shrew
Description
Caption: Small Coffin for a Mummified Shrew, 664–332 B.C.E.. Bronze, 1 1/4 x 2 1/8 x 5 5/16 in. (3.2 x 5.4 x 13.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.409E. (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 bronze amulet depicting a crocodile standing on a rectangular base.
The artifact is a small, detailed bronze figurine of a crocodile. It is elongated and rests atop a rectangular base that appears to be solid. The surface of the base is smooth with visible patina, suggesting age. The crocodile is elegantly stylized with emphasis on its elongated body and tail, typical of animal representations in Egyptian art.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.409E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117062 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.