Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Seated Cat Amulet
Description
Caption: Seated Cat Amulet, 664–30 B.C.E.. Sheet gold, 3/4 x 7/16 in. (1.9 x 1.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.211. (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 gold amulet in the shape of a seated animal.
This artifact is a gold amulet depicting a small, seated animal, which appears to be a representation of a baboon or similar creature. The figure is crafted with emphasis on the animal's upright posture. The style is simple, yet realistic, with attention to form and proportion, common in protective jewelry or iconography intended for personal use.
decorative
unknown
excellent
Materials
gold
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.211 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19266 tier-2
About this record's data
- 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.