Cylindrical Amulet
Description
Object Label: The Egyptians worked with gold and semiprecious stones from earliest times. They mined both types of material in the desert east of the Nile and in present-day Sudan, called “Nubia” in ancient times after the ancient Egyptian word for gold (nub). Clearly, objects made from these high-value materials were available only to the highest ranks of society. Caption: Cylindrical Amulet, ca. 1938–1759 B.C.E.. Gold, amethyst, 2 3/8 × Diam. 5/8 in. (6 × 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 51.226. (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 cylindrical artifact with alternating segments of gold and purple material.
The artifact is a small cylindrical object featuring a sequence of gold and purple segments. The segments are arranged in an alternating pattern, with gold components possibly being metal and purple ones potentially made of a gemstone or glass. The design suggests it may have been part of a larger piece or worn as an adornment.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 51.226 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3566 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.