Head of a Satyr
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Roman (?) Caption: Roman (?). Head of a Satyr, ca. 150–200 C.E.. Marble, 7 7/8 × 6 7/8 × 6 11/16 in. (20 × 17.5 × 17 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, 16.630. (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 fragmentary sculpture of a youthful head with curly hair.
This artifact is a fragmentary sculpture depicting the head of a youth. The piece showcases detailed carving of curly hair and facial features typical of ancient art. The stone appears weathered but retains intricate work on the hair. The head is broken at the neck, indicating it was part of a larger statue.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.630 tier-2
- BKM-Object 10119 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.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.