Female Head
Description
Caption: Female Head, 3rd century C.E.. Clay, pigment, 3 1/16 x 2 5/16 x 1 13/16 in. (7.8 x 5.8 x 4.7 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, 16.310. (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 weathered sculpted female head in profile/three-quarter view, with incised facial features and a headdress or wig rendered with horizontal bands and a curved crest.
A roughly modeled, head-and-upper-neck sculpture appears in gray clay with remnants of lighter pigment across the face and hair. The female figure has strongly incised almond-shaped eyes, a straight nose, and a small mouth; the surface is worn with pitting and chips. On the head, a thick headdress/wig is depicted by layered, arcing bands: a prominent horizontal band across the upper forehead/cranial area and additional curved ridges extending back over the sides. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible despite the cataloged Egyptian context. No distinct royal insignia or identifying text can be read from the worn face and headdress. The background is a plain studio/photographic field, with a scale/label area implied at the bottom but without readable text.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.310 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9568 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.