Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Male Head

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 69.1. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 69.1
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Roman Period
Date: 1st–2nd century C.E.
Date range: 100 CE – 199 CE
Materials: ['Metamorphic schist']
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Male Head (69.1). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17812

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Description

Caption: Male Head, 1st–2nd century C.E.. Metamorphic schist, 7 5/16 × 4 15/16 × 5 5/16 in. (18.5 × 12.5 × 13.5 cm) base: 3 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (9.5 × 9.5 × 9.5 cm) H. w/base: 11 7/16 in. (29 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 69.1. (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 stone sculpted male head shown in frontal view, with closely modeled facial features and hair rendered as smooth, closely curled/close-fitting waves.

The image shows a carved head and neck of a male figure, photographed against a neutral gray background. The face is slightly turned to the viewer’s left, with heavy-lidded eyes, a defined nose, and a closed mouth. The forehead has a few shallow incised grooves, and the hair is rendered as smooth, darkened areas with sculpted ridges suggesting short, close waves. The ears are asymmetrically visible; the surface shows minor chips/blemishes around the lower edge of the neck. The head sits on a separate rectangular dark reddish-brown support base. No visible inscriptions, cartouches, or legible hieroglyphs appear on the head or base in this photograph. No deities or royal names can be identified from inscriptions or iconographic attributes in the provided image. Materials are consistent with the catalogued metamorphic schist, based on the overall stone surface and finish, though the exact stone type cannot be confirmed visually beyond that.

royal Roman Period (per catalogue; visually plausible for a sculpted head, but period cannot be confirmed from image alone) good

Materials carved stone (metamorphic schist per catalogue)dark reddish-brown display base

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Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 69.1 tier-2
BKM-Object 94516 tier-2

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