Poppy Seed Head Pendant Mold
Description
Caption: Poppy Seed Head Pendant Mold, ca. 1390–1322 B.C.E.. Clay, 1 x 1 x 3/8 in (2.6 x 2.5 x 0.9 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, 16.580.616.58. (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 circular fragment of fired clay showing a shallow, concave molded recess in the center.
The image shows a single, round piece of reddish-brown clay photographed against a light gray background. The surface is worn with small pits and breakage consistent with a fragment or heavily abraded mold. In the center there is a recessed cavity with a relatively dark interior, shaped like a simple depression rather than a clearly legible relief scene or text. No distinct hieroglyphs, cartouches, or identifiable iconography are visible. The object’s form is broadly consistent with a broken mold piece, though the specific depiction of a poppy seed head is not clearly verifiable from this angle and condition.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.616.58 tier-2
- BKM-Object 226699 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.