Statuette of the Child Horus
Description
Caption: Statuette of the Child Horus, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 7 3/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 1/4 in. (18.2 x 6.3 x 3.2 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, 16.290. (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 small, upright terracotta statuette-like form with a tapered top and a worn, rounded facial area, photographed in front view against a plain background.
The object appears as a single, standing statuette with a narrow, pointed upper portion and a rounded, indistinct head/face. The surface is heavily abraded, with shallow modeling that suggests a child-figure or protective deity iconography but without clear facial features. No clearly defined painted pigment survives or can be reliably distinguished in this grayscale image. The remainder of the body shows general modeling and a faint separation of the torso from the base, with no leg detail visible at this resolution/angle. There are no legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions visible on the front view.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.290 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9548 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.