Inlay in the Form of a Bunch of Grapes
Description
Caption: Inlay in the Form of a Bunch of Grapes, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Faience, 3 1/4 × 1 13/16 × 1 3/16 in. (8.2 × 4.6 × 3 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, 16.364. (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 blue-green faience amulet in the shape of a bead.
The artifact is a faience amulet shaped like a bead or a shell with a textured surface suggesting a natural object. It features a distinct blue-green glaze typical of Egyptian faience work. The composition reflects artistic simplicity focused on symbolic representation. There is a small perforation, likely for suspension or attachment to a necklace.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.364 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9617 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.
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