Column Amulet (Wadj)
Description
Caption: Column Amulet (Wadj), 664–343 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 3/8 × 1/2 in. (3.5 × 1.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1311E. (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.
A small turquoise-blue faience amulet in the form of a tapering column with a rounded top and a flat, slightly flared collar near the upper part.
The object is shown isolated against a light background. It has a tall, narrow, tapering body, ending in a pointed lower tip, and a rounded cap/top element. Near the top, there is a horizontal, slightly stepped collar that flares outward a little on both sides. The surface is glazed and turquoise-blue with areas of wear and small chips/excrescences; the glaze is uneven, with a few darker spots and abrasions indicating age or handling. No clear carved relief or legible hieroglyphs are visible on the body in this image, and there are no discernible cartouches or inscriptions. The form is consistent with a column-type amulet associated with the Wadj/‘wḏꜣt’/green-eye symbolism, though the exact identifying sign is not clearly readable here.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1311E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117873 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.