Funerary Figure of a Woman Late Antique PeriodEl Behnasa (Oxyrhynchus), Egypt
Description
Object Label: This large figure of a woman was carved against a flat ground. Originally full-length, the figure may have been broken by the tomb robbers who left marks in the stone around the woman’s head while trying to remove her from the background. Her hairdo, clothing, and jewelry are entirely classical, as was then the fashion. The cup in her hand, meant to hold Nile River water, shows that she was a priestess of Isis, one of the few Egyptian deities whose cult lasted into this period. Catalogue description: Culture Coptic Caption: Coptic. Funerary Figure of a Woman, 3rd–4th century C.E.. Limestone, gesso, pigment, 34 5/8 × 20 1/16 × 11 13/16 in., 226.5 lb. (88 × 51 × 30 cm, 102.74kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 70.132. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 70.132 tier-2
- BKM-Object 96710 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.
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