Openwork Ring
Description
Object Label: This fine ring is adorned with two images of a djed-pillar, a symbol of the god Osiris, flanked by protective goddesses in the form of winged cobras. Elaborate faience rings, some associated with religious and royal festivals, were most common during the New Kingdom but were also made during the Third Intermediate Period. Caption: Openwork Ring, ca. 1070–718 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 x 1 in. (2.6 x 2.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.203. (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 turquoise-blue faience openwork ring (cylindrical/bracelet-like) with decorative pierced sides and a central bird- or falcon-like motif surrounded by geometric bands.
The object appears as a short, hollow cylinder or ring with an openwork design on its outer surface. The color is turquoise/blue with darker outlines in the pierced areas, consistent with glazed faience. A vertical framing border runs around the sides, filled with repeated linear motifs, while the center shows a large stylized bird/falcon form in profile (head turned to one side), with a wing/body area rendered in raised glaze or relief. The openwork/voids create a perforated pattern at the bottom and along the sides, producing a lace-like effect. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or spelled text are visible at this resolution. The background shows a museum display with other items on a wall, but no additional inscriptions are readable.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 48.203 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3525 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.