Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Was-Scepter
Description
Caption: Was-Scepter, ca. 664 B.C.E.–305 B.C.E.. Faience. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1650E. (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.
Faience head of a horned animal, likely a gazelle or ram.
This artifact depicts the head of a horned animal, possibly a gazelle or ram, crafted in faience. It showcases typical faience colors, with a smooth surface and some mineral deposits indicating age. The horns and ears are stylized, characteristic of Egyptian artistry.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1650E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118174 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.