Relief Bust of Serapis
Description
Caption: Relief Bust of Serapis, 3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, 2 3/4 x 2 1/16 in. (7 x 5.2 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, 16.285. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
The image shows a small relief bust with a rounded head and a beard/moustache detail, carved in a coarse, grainy surface.
The artifact appears to be a freestanding or relief-like bust with a rounded, dome-shaped head and a protruding beard/moustache carved on the face. The hairline and beard are suggested by shallow incisions, while the clothing or neck/upper garment is indicated by a band-like relief across the lower portion. The surface includes many small chips and pitted areas, suggesting wear or manufacture in a friable material. No clearly legible hieroglyphic, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible in the provided image. The face/attire style could be consistent with a Greco-Egyptian cult portrait, but specific identification of Serapis (or any other named figure) is not definitively confirmable from the visible details alone.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.285 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9543 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.