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Inscribed Handle

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1697E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1697E
Find spot: Giza, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26, or later
Date: 664–525 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 525 BCE
Materials: ['Faience']
Height: 8.8 cm
Width: 2.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Caption: Inscribed Handle, 664–525 B.C.E.. Faience, 3 7/16 x Diam. 1 in. (8.8 x 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1697E. (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.

A small green faience cylindrical handle or amulet-like object covered with vertically arranged Egyptian hieroglyphic text.

The image shows a narrow, vertically oriented object with a rounded top and flat/rounded bottom, finished in a glossy green glaze. The surface is densely incised with hieroglyphic signs arranged in vertical columns (one main register visible along the length). The text is the primary decoration; no clearly identifiable royal cartouche or deity figure is confidently distinguishable at this resolution. A museum label with the number “371697E” appears below the object; no other script (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) is visible. The object appears intact though worn at edges, with some darkening/irregularities in the glaze typical of antiquities or display wear.

decorative Late Period (per catalogue); exact sub-period uncertain from the image alone. good

Materials faience (glazed, green)

Signs multiple hieroglyphs in vertical columns (specific signs unclear at this resolution) ×25

Visible text "Vertical hieroglyphic text (exact excerpt unclear)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical hieroglyphic text (exact excerpt unclear).

Connections

Found at Giza

Materials Limestone Faience

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1697E tier-2
BKM-Object 118221 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.