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-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.
A detached carved head with wavy hair and a prominent, curly beard, shown from the front on a roughly triangular, broken terracotta fragment.
The image shows a small, fragmentary sculpture representing a bearded male head. The figure has thick, wavy hair gathered at the sides/top and a full, curled beard with layered curls. The face is front-facing with simplified eyes and eyebrows; a moustache is integrated into the beard. The lower edge is broken/unfinished, suggesting the piece is a fragment (head with some surrounding mass). No clear hieroglyphs or alphabetic text are visible. The surface is matte and light-colored, consistent with the catalogue’s terracotta material, though the photo lighting is monochrome and prevents certainty beyond the visible texture and color.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.224 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9490 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.
- 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.