Head, Female, Maenad?
Description
Caption: Head, Female, Maenad?, 3rd century C.E.. Clay, pigment, 2 5/8 x 2 3/8 in. (6.7 x 6.1 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, 16.312.
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.
Fragmentary painted clay sculptural head showing a man’s/young woman’s face with curly hair or a wig and defined facial features.
The image shows a small, broken sculptural head (upper portion with missing/abraded lower areas) modeled in a naturalistic style. The head has rounded cheeks, a straight nose, and a closed mouth. Hair is rendered in short curls or a wig-like texture covering the top and sides; a strap or hair mass is suggested near the right temple/side. The surface retains traces of red-brown/orange pigment over the clay, with darker paint accents around the eyebrows, eyes, and mouth; the paint is weathered and partially flaked. No clear hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No cartouches or royal names can be identified on the visible surface. The object appears to be a standalone head rather than part of a larger inscription-bearing monument.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.312 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9570 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.