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-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 clay head of a figure with faint remnants of paint.
The artifact is a small clay head depicting a figure, likely representing a deity or personage, with remnants of paint indicating facial features and a possible headdress. The style is simplistic with some erosion of details, suggesting either age or exposure to the elements. There are small holes, possibly used for attachment or decorative purposes.
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.