Figure of Horus-Helios
Description
Caption: Figure of Horus-Helios, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 5 5/16 x 3 5/16 x 1 15/16 in. (13.5 x 8.4 x 5 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, 16.212. (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 fragmentary sculpture depicting a person with a stylized headdress.
The artifact is a broken sculpture, showing the upper body of a figure with pronounced facial features and a prominent headdress. The style suggests an emphasis on stylization, common in certain periods of Egyptian art. The surface is rough, indicating age and wear, and the details in the headdress may symbolize a specific role or characteristic of the figure.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.212 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9478 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.