Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Amulet of Pataikos
Description
Caption: Amulet of Pataikos, 664–332 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 5/16 × 5/8 × 7/16 in. (3.3 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.990E.
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.
Small faience amulet depicting the backside of a nude male figure.
This artifact is a small faience amulet representing a nude male figure from behind. The style is simplistic, with a focus on basic form and shape rather than detailed features. The amulet is primarily green, typical of faience, and includes a small area of red at the bottom, suggesting the presence of an inscription or decorative element.
decorative
unclear
good
Materials
faience
Signs
unknown
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.990E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117567 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.