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

Finger Ring

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 08.480.156. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 08.480.156
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 22 to Dynasty 23
Date: 1070–664 B.C.E.
Date range: 1070 BCE – 664 BCE
Materials: ['Faience']
Height: 1.7 cm
Width: 2.3 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Caption: Finger Ring, 1070–664 B.C.E.. Faience, 11/16 x Diam. 7/8 in. (1.7 x 2.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.156. (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 finger ring with a bezel-like band decorated with faint incised markings.

The image shows a small cylindrical ring viewed from the front. The surface is turquoise/blue with darker blue/green tones along the rim, consistent with glazed faience. Along the lower front portion there are faint red-brown incised or painted marks that may form short lines of decoration; however, the individual hieroglyphs are not clear enough to identify specific signs or read a full inscription. No figures of deities, no royal names/cartouches, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are clearly legible. The object appears intact but worn, with the incised decoration only partially preserved.

decorative Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue); exact date unclear from image alone good

Materials faience (glazed)

Signs Unidentified incised/painted decorative lines ×5

Visible text "Faint red-brown/inscribed marks present on the front band; unreadable."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Faint red-brown/inscribed marks present on the front band; unreadable.

Connections

Materials Faience

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 08.480.156 tier-2
BKM-Object 19218 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.
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.