Male Head
Description
Caption: Male Head, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 1 9/16 x 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (3.9 x 2.2 x 2.9 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, 16.230. (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 weathered stone head of a figure with missing details.
The artifact is a stone statue depicting the head of a figure. The sculpture is heavily weathered, likely made from limestone, exhibiting significant erosion and loss of detail. The facial features are indistinct, with notable damage, especially around the nose, mouth, and forehead. The style appears simplistic, lacking intricate carvings or detail work seen in later periods.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.230 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9496 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.