Female Musician
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Female Musician, 5th–7th century C.E.. Bronze, without base: 5 15/16 x 2 1/2 in. (15.1 x 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 67.4. (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 bronze figurine of a standing female musician-like figure with arms raised and holding objects at both sides.
The image shows the photographed front view of a small bronze statuette. The figure stands upright with a flared, bowl-like torso or garment and two raised arms/hands positioned to the left and right, each hand gripping an object resembling a small staff, utensil, or musical accessory. The head is rounded; facial details are minimal. The torso contains an incised or relief panel at the center with no clearly legible signs. The lower body narrows into a skirt or fitted garment with a decorative band near the feet. Overall surface patina is visible, and the piece shows wear and light corrosion typical of bronze. No clearly readable hieroglyphs or other scripts are visible in the central panel at this resolution; there are decorative markings that could be symbols but are not confident enough to transcribe. No cartouches, royal names, or explicit deity iconography can be identified with certainty from the image alone.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 67.4 tier-2
- BKM-Object 90720 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.
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