Seated Harpocrates with Jar
Description
Caption: Seated Harpocrates with Jar, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 6 11/16 x 4 5/16 x 1 13/16 in. (17 x 10.9 x 4.6 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, 16.213. (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 sculpted artifact depicting the back of a seated bird.
The artifact is a sculpted representation of the back of a bird, featuring curved lines and a tapered top suggestive of a bird's tail and back. The piece is relatively plain with no intricate details or decorations visible. The surface appears smooth with signs of wear consistent with age.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.213 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9479 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.