Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Tweezers
Description
Caption: Tweezers, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Bronze, 1 3/8 x 4 5/16 in. (3.5 x 10.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.1. (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 or tool shaped like a looped wire.
The artifact appears to be a slender, U-shaped object, possibly made of metal, resting on a clear display stand. Its design is simple, with no visible inscriptions or decorative elements. The object's functionality is unclear, as it could be a tool or a type of amulet used in ancient rituals.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
metal
Connections
Materials
Metal
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 07.447.1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4203 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.