Female Head
Description
Caption: Female Head, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Clay, pigment (?), 1 15/16 x 1 3/16 x 1 3/16 in. (5 x 3.1 x 3.1 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, 16.313. (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 carved sculpture of a woman’s head/upper face in gray stone or clay-like material, with stylized facial features and a simplified coiffure or headdress.
A frontal view depicts a female head with a rounded forehead, arched brows, almond-shaped eyes, and a small mouth. The hair/coiffure is indicated by incised or worn bands and a pronounced band-like element framing the forehead, with side elements suggesting a headdress or wig. The back portion is partially visible and appears squared/flattened, consistent with a head fragment or head-and-shoulders form. No clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible on the surface. The object is monochrome gray, with surface wear and minor pitting; any pigment is not clearly identifiable from this photo, though the catalogue suggests pigment may be present.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.313 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9571 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.