Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Female Head

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Description

Caption: Female Head, 3rd century C.E.. Limestone, plaster, pigment, 8 11/16 x 7 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (22 x 19 x 20 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 71.87. (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.

A fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact with intricate surface patterns.

The image depicts a fragment of a possibly limestone artifact, displaying intricate, fossil-like patterns on its surface. The object appears to have rough, natural textures suggesting it might be a piece of architectural or sculptural element from an ancient structure. The style and composition are difficult to determine due to the fragmentary state.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 71.87 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 97546 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.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.