Amulet Representing a Baboon
Description
Caption: Amulet Representing a Baboon, ca. 664–525 B.C.E., or later. Faience, 15/16 x 5/16 x 7/16 in. (2.4 x 0.8 x 1.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1201E. (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 figurine of a deity with animal features.
The artifact is a small statuette representing a deity with animal characteristics, notably the head resembling a baboon or similar creature. It appears to be standing on a rectangular base. The carving style suggests typical Egyptian iconography used to depict deities in an anthropomorphic style with some animal attributes. The material looks to be a type of stone, possibly limestone or faience, commonly employed in small-scale Egyptian sculptures.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1201E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117773 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.