Head of Female Figurine
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Head of Female Figurine, 6th–7th century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 2 5/16 x 1 7/8 x 15/16 in. (5.9 x 4.7 x 2.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.162. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University))
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, roughly teardrop-shaped terracotta head with a painted face and incised/outlined facial features, likely from a female figurine.
The image shows a detached terracotta head with a hollow back formed by a conical/teardrop outline. The front surface is worn and retains areas of pigment: a lighter ground over much of the face and hair, with darker paint concentrated around the eyes/nose area and along portions of the head/neck. The facial features appear indicated by paint or shallow modeling—especially the eyes and a central nose/mouth region—though fine details are heavily abraded. Three circular perforations/holes are visible: one at the top (likely for attachment or suspension) and two smaller holes on the left and right sides of the upper/outer surface. No legible hieroglyphs or inscriptions are visible; the object’s decoration is limited to painted facial/hair features. The overall style and fragmentary preservation are consistent with a terracotta figurine head; no specific deity attributes (e.g., crown/uraeus) can be confidently identified from the visible paint/modeling. No royal cartouche is present.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.162 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9438 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.