Torso of a Boy
Description
Provenance: Culture Roman Caption: Roman. Torso of a Boy, ca. 100 C.E.. Marble, 18 11/16 × 11 1/2 × 5 in. (47.5 × 29.2 × 12.7 cm) 52 lb. (23.59kg) mount: 23 × 14 × 12 in. (58.4 × 35.6 × 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.618. (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 partial marble statue, missing the head and lower legs.
The image depicts a fragmentary marble statue of a human figure, draped in a toga-like garment. The carving style suggests it might be of Greek or Roman influence, common in the Ptolemaic or Roman periods in Egypt. The sculpture is missing the head and the legs below the thigh, and the surface shows signs of wear and erosion.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 36.618 tier-2
- BKM-Object 46581 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.