Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Amulet Representing a Baboon
Description
Caption: Amulet Representing a Baboon, ca. 664–525 B.C.E., or later. Faience, 7/8 x 3/8 x 1/2 in. (2.2 x 1 x 1.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1318E. (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 ancient Egyptian amulet depicting an animal figure, likely a horse.
This artifact is a small, stone amulet shaped like a horse. The amulet is carefully carved, with a hole for suspension, suggesting it was worn as a necklace or charm. The style is simplistic but indicative of symbolic importance in ancient Egyptian culture.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1318E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117879 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.
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