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-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 photographed terracotta sculpted head of a male deity/pharaoh-like figure with heavy-lidded eyes, a striated headdress or wig, and a stylized facial mouth and nose.
The image shows a close-up, studio-style photograph of a rounded terracotta sculptural head mounted on a small support. The figure has deeply modeled eyelids with arched brows, a broad, flat nose, and a carved mouth with slightly downturned corners. The sides of the head show bundled, raised ridges suggesting a wig or headdress. No clear Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic inscriptions are visible on the face or around the perimeter in this photo. The catalogued identification as a Roman Period “Head of Harpocrates” is not contradicted by any visible inscription, but the image is insufficient to verify Harpocrates specifically (the characteristic Harpocrates attributes—e.g., specific iconographic markings—are not clearly confirmable from this view).
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.
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