Figure of a Nymph
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egypto-Roman Caption: Egypto-Roman. Figure of a Nymph, 100–395 C.E.. Bronze, 2 9/16 × 1 9/16 × 1 in. (6.5 × 3.9 × 2.6 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, 16.392.
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.
Bronze sculptural figure seen from the front/side, with a human-like body and raised arms/gesture, shown standing on one leg.
The object appears as a small bronze statuette. The figure has an elongated torso, a head that is indistinct/partly lost, and both arms bent; one forearm appears raised behind/over the back, while the other is positioned downward or across the body. The lower body tapers at the hips with one leg extended downward and the other bent/raised, suggesting a contrapposto pose. The surface is dark brown to greenish due to corrosion/patina, with pitting and wear indicating age or post-depositional deterioration. No clear attributes (such as specific hairstyles, wings, or identifiable regalia) are preserved well enough to confidently link the figure to a particular deity or named “nymph” iconography. No inscriptions are visible. The background is a neutral grey support typical of museum photography.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.392 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9644 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.