Head of a Bull
Description
Caption: Head of a Bull, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 3 1/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 9/16 in. (7.8 x 4.4 x 4 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, 16.306. (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 clay or stone model depicting a head with a prominent, elongated snout or nose.
The artifact appears to be a sculptural fragment, possibly part of a larger statue or relief. The material looks like weathered clay or stone, and the style is simplistic with minimal detailing except for the notable elongated snout or nose feature. The item is mounted on a modern stand for display, suggesting it is a museum piece or from an excavation.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.306 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9564 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.