Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Amulet Representing an Ape
Description
Caption: Amulet Representing an Ape, ca. 664–525 B.C.E., or later. Chalcedony, 9/16 x 1/4 x 1/4 in. (1.4 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1199E. (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, carved amulet resembling a wrapped figure.
This artifact appears to be a small amulet, possibly representing a wrapped human or deity figure. The style suggests simplicity, with a focus on symbolic representation rather than detailed realism. The artifact is carved from a dark material and contains incised lines suggesting wrappings.
religious
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1199E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117771 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.