Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
Bead
Description
Caption: Bead, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, Diam. 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (1.3 x 2.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1171E. (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 elongated, cylindrical artifact with carved relief figures.
The artifact is a cylindrical object with a raised relief, depicting figures and possibly hieroglyphic inscriptions. The figures appear to be human, carved in a stylistic manner typical of ancient Egyptian art. The composition is symmetrical and compact, fitting within the object’s vertical confines.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1171E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117743 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.