Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other

Plain Key

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Description

Caption: Plain Key, ca. 1539–1190 B.C.E.. Wood, Diam. 1/2 × 6 15/16 in. (1.3 × 17.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.461E. (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 object, possibly a tool or part of a larger artifact.

The artifact is a narrow, cylindrical piece of wood, showing signs of wear. It has a natural brown color with a slightly worn surface. The object appears simple in design, with no visible carvings or ornamentation except for a possible inscription in red.

unclear unknown good
Materials wood
Visible text "B9-1CL6"

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials Wood

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.461E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117110 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.