Poppy Seed Head Pendant Mold
Description
Caption: Poppy Seed Head Pendant Mold, ca. 1390–1322 B.C.E.. Clay, 13/16 x 3/8 x 1/4 in (2.0 x 0.9 x 0.7 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, 16.580.616.177. (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.
Small, round fragment of baked clay showing a single incised/pressed motif on one face.
The image shows a small circular disc-like piece of fired clay photographed against a light gray background. The surface is sandy and worn, with a central shallow cavity or depression where a design appears to have been pressed or carved. Within the inner area, there is a dark, vertical form resembling a stylized plant or seed-head element, but fine details are eroded and not clear enough to identify specific symbols, deities, or text. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic scripts are visible. The form is consistent with a small mold or mold fragment for a small pendant, though the exact subject (poppy seed head) cannot be confirmed from the worn motif alone.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.616.177 tier-2
- BKM-Object 226828 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.