Protective God as Dancer and Musician
Description
Caption: Protective God as Dancer and Musician, ca. 1390–1327 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 11/16 x 11/16 in. (4.3 x 1.8 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, 16.426. (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.
An ancient Egyptian amulet depicting a protective deity.
The artifact is a small, intricately carved amulet made of a greenish material, likely faience or another type of stone. It depicts a deity with distinct features such as a mane and a tail, holding an implement in one hand. The figure has a headdress, possibly indicating its divine status, and stands on a rectangular base.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.426 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9677 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.