Inlay in the Form of a Bunch of Grape
Description
Caption: Inlay in the Form of a Bunch of Grape, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Faience, 3 5/16 × 1 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (8.4 × 4.8 × 4.4 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, 16.363. (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 blue, textured amulet resembling a pine cone or floral form.
The artifact is a blue amulet with a textured surface that mimics a pine cone or possibly a floral motif. It has a hole, likely for suspension, indicating it could have been worn as a protective charm. The surface shows a weathered glaze characteristic of faience, a material commonly used in ancient Egyptian artifacts for its bright colors and symbolism.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.363 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9616 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.