Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Signet Ring
Description
Caption: Signet Ring, ca. 838–712 B.C.E.. Faience, 15/16 × 2 9/16 in. (2.3 × 6.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.876E.
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 cylindrical ancient artifact with a hole through its center.
The artifact appears to be a roughly shaped cylindrical object, possibly made of stone or pottery, with a notable hole running through its center. The exterior surface shows signs of wear and age, indicating it may have been part of a larger tool or ceremonial object. A portion of the object is chipped, revealing its inner composition.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.876E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117467 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.