Isis
Description
Object Label: Some elements of Egyptian art were susceptible to frequent change, but others were bound by tradition. The style of garments shown on statues, for example, changed with fashion trends, but a sculptural form, once perfected, tended to be reproduced for thousands of years. This statue depicts the elaborate garments favored by the aristocracy in the first century C.E. Although the clothing style of this statue differs from earlier pharaonic ones, the basic poses are identical. Caption: Isis, 1st century C.E.. Basalt, 38 1/2 × 15 × 13 in., 231 lb. (97.8 × 38.1 × 33 cm, 104.78kg) mount (dimensions as installed): 40 × 15 × 13 in., 230 lb. (101.6 × 38.1 × 33 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 74.220.
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 dark stone (basalt) fragment carved as a robed female figure with one arm bent and held across the body, shown in a standing pose.
The image shows a narrow, vertical basalt sculpture fragment of a female deity or statue figure. The figure wears a heavy, draped garment with layered folds across the torso and a wrapped head/upper headdress. One arm is bent at the elbow and held in front of the body, while the other side shows the remainder of the drapery. The surface is worn but retains incised/raised modeling of cloth folds and facial/upper-body contours. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or textual inscriptions are visible on the visible surfaces. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 74.220 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3841 tier-2
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- 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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