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-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.
A small fired-clay stamp/mold fragment with a recessed, rounded-and-rectangular cavity on one face, photographed against a plain light background.
The object appears to be a small, brown terracotta/clay piece with worn surfaces. One face shows a worked cavity/opening shaped like a recessed oval/rectangular form (possibly the working face of a mold), with rough edges from manufacture or use. No clear modeled plant form (e.g., a distinct poppy seed head) is visible in this photo beyond the single recessed cavity. The item is shown in isolation with no readable inscriptions, iconographic figures, or identifiable hieroglyphs. The photographed surface texture suggests drying cracks or firing wear consistent with clay artifacts.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.616.167 tier-2
- BKM-Object 226819 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.
- 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.