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-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.
Fragment of a sculpted human head from ancient Egypt.
The artifact is a fragmentary sculpture depicting a head, likely from a larger statue. The carving is rough, with details such as facial features and headdress partially visible. The style suggests a focus on royal portraiture, potentially indicating its original use in a funerary or royal context. The stone material indicates it might have been part of a temple or tomb decoration.
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.