Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Amulet Representing the Sun Disk
Description
Caption: Amulet Representing the Sun Disk, 664–30 B.C.E.. Stone, 9/16 x 3/16 x 11/16 in. (1.5 x 0.4 x 1.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1165E. (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, round ancient Egyptian artifact possibly made from stone.
The artifact is a small, circular object resembling a bead or amulet with a textured surface and a small hole in the center, indicating it may have been used for stringing or attachment. The material appears to be stone, with a dark, mottled appearance.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1165E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117738 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.
- 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.