Top of Staff in the Form of Hathor
Description
Caption: Top of Staff in the Form of Hathor, 664–343 B.C.E. Bronze (copper-silver alloy?), 1 11/16 x 9/16 x 5 11/16 in. (4.3 x 1.5 x 14.4 cm) 5 13/16 × 1 11/16 × 9/16 in. (14.7 × 4.3 × 1.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.579E. (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.
Bronze (copper-alloy) staff top shaped with a cupped, two-lobed form and a central cartouche-like area containing hieroglyphic decoration.
The image shows the upper terminal of a handheld staff or scepter. The object is cast in a dark bronze/copper alloy and has a long cylindrical handle with simple incised bands near the top. At the upper end, two side lobes curve upward and inward to form a Hathor-like, arching frame around a central rectangular panel. Within the panel are incised or raised hieroglyphic signs (not fully legible at this resolution) and small circular/rosette elements flanking the central area. No other readable text, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic is visible. No royal name cartouche can be confidently read; the central hieroglyphic grouping is decorative or may represent a formal inscription but remains unclear.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.579E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117220 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.