Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Broad-Collar Amulet

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Caption: Broad-Collar Amulet, 664–525 B.C.E.. Electrum, 3/8 × 5/16 × 2 1/8 in. (1 × 0.8 × 5.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.791E. (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 crescent-shaped broad-collar type amulet/ornament with a U-shaped profile and rounded ends, shown against a light background.

The image shows a single crescent/U-shaped object resembling the broad-collar form: the central band curves downward at the center with two upward terminals. The surface is brown/gold-toned with a faint segmented/striated treatment along the inner curve, and each terminal has a darker, rounded cap with what may be small molded/attached elements (details unclear). No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible on the photographed face. No figures of deities are clearly identifiable from the image, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text appears. The object appears to be metal or a metal-like alloy, but the specific alloy type (e.g., electrum) cannot be confirmed visually from this image alone.

decorative Late Period (per catalogue; visually undetermined) good
Materials metal (electrum unknown)

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Metal

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.791E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117382 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.