Head of Harpocrates
Description
Caption: Head of Harpocrates, 2nd century C.E., or later. Terracotta, 2 5/8 x 2 11/16 x 2 3/4 in. (6.6 x 6.9 x 7 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, 16.214. (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 sculptural head of an ancient Egyptian figure.
This image shows a side view of a sculptural head, possibly representing a child or a young individual. The style is typical of Egyptian sculpture with smooth surfaces and stylized features. The head shows a rounded structure indicative of youth along with detailed features like the eyes and mouth. It appears to be unfinished or fragmentary as it lacks a full body.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.214 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9480 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.