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

Plaque with Image of Goddess

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Description

Caption: Plaque with Image of Goddess, ca. 1075–332 B.C.E.. Faience, 5/16 x 1/8 x 1/2 in. (0.8 x 0.3 x 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1261E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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 small turquoise amulet with an animal figure in relief.

The artifact is a small, greenish-blue faience amulet depicting an animal, possibly a hare, in relief. The amulet is rectangular with a loop for suspension at the top, indicating it may have been worn as a pendant. The detailing is simplistic, typical of amulets used in daily life and religious practices.

decorative New Kingdom good
Materials faience

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Faience

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1261E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117828 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.