Female Head
Description
Caption: Female Head, 3rd century C.E.. Clay, 2 5/16 x 1 15/16 x 2 1/4 in. (6 x 4.9 x 5.7 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, 16.228. (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 head sculpture with detailed hair patterns.
This artifact is a stone sculpture depicting a head with intricately carved hair patterns. The composition emphasizes the texture of the hair, showcasing elaborate braiding or coiling typical of artistic styles used in personal adornment. The lack of facial details suggests it may be a stylized representation or part of a larger composition.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.228 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9494 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.