Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Horus Falcon Amulet

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Description

Caption: Horus Falcon Amulet, 664–30 B.C.E.. Gold, 9/16 x 3/8 x 1/16 in. (1.5 x 1 x 0.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.218. (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 gold amulet shaped like a seated falcon (Horus-falcon form) is shown against a light patterned background.

The image centers on a tiny, gold-colored object with the recognizable silhouette of a falcon: a compact body, a raised head with beak, and a curved wing/body posture. The surface appears cast or molded, with minimal fine detail, and slight highlights suggest a metallic finish. No hieroglyphs or cartouches are visible on the amulet in this view, and there is no readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text. The object is too small and the photo angle too limited to identify additional iconographic elements beyond the falcon form. The catalogue description as a “Horus Falcon Amulet” is consistent with the falcon shape, though the exact Horus-specific symbols (if any) are not clearly legible here.

decorative Late Period to Ptolemaic Period (as catalogued); exact dating unclear from the photo alone good
Deities Horus (falcon form)
Materials Gold (metallic surface)

Connections

Found at Thebes
Deities Horus
Materials Gold

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 08.480.218 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 19270 tier-2
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  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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