Wadjet-eye Amulet
Description
Provenance: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Wadjet-eye Amulet, 664–332 B.C.E. (?). Faience, 7/8 x 1 1/16 x 1/4 in. (2.3 x 2.7 x 0.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1293E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
The image shows a small Egyptian amulet shaped like an eye (an eye-of-Horus/Wadjet-style form) with black-lined markings and a raised outer border.
A single amulet is photographed against a plain light background. The object is flat and slightly curved, with a wedge-like extension at one end (likely a suspension/attachment feature). The front depicts a stylized eye shape: a thick upper lid with rows of short vertical hatch marks/striping, a central pupil/iris indicated by a dark rounded form, and lower lid markings including a curved arc. An elongated horizontal line segment appears near the upper area under the border. No clear cartouches or full hieroglyphic sequence are visible; the decorative lines function as part of the eye iconography rather than legible text. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is present. The surface appears ceramic-like with dark and light zones consistent with faience coloration, though exact glaze details cannot be confirmed from the photo.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1293E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117856 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.