Wadjet-eye Ring
Description
Caption: Wadjet-eye Ring, ca. 1352–1332 B.C.E.. Faience, 3/8 x 13/16 x 13/16 in. (0.9 x 2.1 x 2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.355. (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.
Fragmentary faience object with a broad, white background decorated by repeated black zigzag bands; one edge shows a turquoise/green glaze area.
The image shows a small, irregular fragment with curved edges, largely covered by a white (cream) surface. Across the visible face are multiple evenly spaced black zigzag lines running horizontally/diagonally in parallel, forming a repeating chevron pattern. Along the left side and near a broken edge there is a patch of greenish/turquoise glaze, suggesting the original object may have had a molded or glazed border. No readable hieroglyphs or cartouches are visible on the fragment, and there is no clear depiction of an eye or other iconographic details beyond the patterned decoration. The object appears broken, with worn surfaces and chipping typical of faience artifacts.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.355 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9609 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.