Poppy Seed Head Pendant Mold
Description
Caption: Poppy Seed Head Pendant Mold, ca. 1390–1322 B.C.E.. Clay, 15/16 x 3/4 x 7/16 in (2.4 x 1.9 x 1.1 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, 16.580.616.167. (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 seal or amulet with a carved design.
The artifact is a small, square-shaped seal or amulet with a central carved design. The piece appears to be fashioned from stone or clay, with a simple and utilitarian composition. The central carving seems to depict a stylized figure or symbol, possibly worn down by time, suggesting its functional use in ancient Egypt.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.616.167 tier-2
- BKM-Object 226819 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.