Female Head
Description
Caption: Female Head, ca. 3rd century C.E.. Clay, pigment, 2 7/8 x 1 15/16 x 1 1/4 in. (7.3 x 4.9 x 3.1 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, 16.225. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
Clay impression in the form of a lotus flower.
The artifact is a clay relief depicting a stylized lotus flower with distinct, radiating petals. The form is simple yet conveys the organic shape of the flower. The surface shows wear suggestive of age, but the lines are still discernible, hinting at a decorative purpose rather than functional. The craftsmanship reflects a focus on symbolic representation.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.225 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9491 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.