Upper Part of a Sistrum
Description
Caption: Upper Part of a Sistrum, ca. 1539–1190 B.C.E., or later. Wood, 8 x 1 1/2 x 2 1/8 in. (20.3 x 3.8 x 5.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.438E. (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.
A wooden musical instrument, likely a lyre, from ancient Egypt.
The image depicts a wooden artifact, identified as an ancient Egyptian lyre. The instrument features a carved sound box at its base and several strings that are attached to it. The head of the lyre includes a decorative element resembling a human or deity face. The wood shows signs of age but remains in relatively good condition, suggesting it was carefully preserved.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.438E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117088 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.