Cylinder Bead of Senwosret I
Description
Caption: Cylinder Bead of Senwosret I, ca. 1919–1875 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 7/8 x 3/8 in. (2.2 x 0.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 44.123.51. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small cylindrical drill-hole bead with incised decoration on a light stone surface, photographed against a plain background.
The image shows a single small cylinder bead held or displayed on a dark stand. The bead is predominantly light brown/gray with visible tool marks and chipped edges. One face appears to have an incised motif resembling a shallow curved/arched form; the rest of the surface is worn and partly abraded, making finer hieroglyphic reading uncertain. A through-hole/drilled perforation is visible on one end, consistent with a cylinder bead format. No clear painted glaze sheen is evident in the photo, and no legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are clearly readable at this resolution. No deities are identifiable with certainty from the visible wear and indeterminate motif.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 44.123.51 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3468 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.