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

Small Sculpture of Man

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1894E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1894E
Find spot: Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Modern, in the style of the New Kingdom
Dynasty: in the style of Dynasty 18
Date: 19th century C.E.
Date range: 1800 CE – 1899 CE
Materials: ['Wood', 'pigment']
Height: 21.7 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Caption: Small Sculpture of Man, 19th century C.E.. Wood, pigment, Height: 8 9/16 in. (21.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1894E. (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 standing figure sculpture of a human holding a long staff/scepter-like object, shown frontally with stylized facial features and a patterned garment panel on the torso.

The image shows a single, front-facing carved male human figure standing with feet slightly apart on a rounded rectangular base. The head is bald or closely shaven with incised facial features; arched eyebrows and a narrow mouth are visible. The figure wears a short, kilt-like garment with a central vertical, rectangular panel containing incised or painted motif resembling vertical hieroglyphic columns or a decorative emblem. In one hand (to the viewer’s right) the figure holds a long staff or rod-like object resting along the leg. The sculpture appears coated or painted in a light gray/ochre tone, with darker lines for the incised details. No clear cartouche or royal name is legible on the figure; the inscription-like markings on the garment panel are present but too unclear to transcribe reliably. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. Background and mounting are plain studio/photographic.

royal Modern (New Kingdom style), Thebes (per catalogue ground truth) good

Materials wood (sculpted), pigment/paint (visible in light coating and darker incised accents)

Signs incised vertical motif resembling hieroglyphic column(s) on garment panel (unreadable) ×5

Connections

Found at Thebes

Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1894E tier-2
BKM-Object 118399 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.