Head of Serapis
Description
Caption: Head of Serapis, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, 3 3/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 5/8 in. (8.5 x 4.8 x 4.1 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, 16.224. (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 object featuring a sculpted human face in profile.
The artifact is a clay figure depicting a bearded human face in profile. The style suggests a high level of detail in facial features, including the hair and beard. The texture of the clay is coarse, and the object seems to be incomplete or eroded on the top section, indicating possible damage or intentional styling.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.224 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9490 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.