Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Head from a Statuette of Zeus Serapis
Description
Caption: Head from a Statuette of Zeus Serapis, 1st century C.E.. Faience, 3 7/8 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (9.8 x 7.3 x 6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 58.79.1. (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 sculpted head of a bearded male figure, likely representing a deity.
The artifact depicts a sculpted head of a bearded male figure with detailed facial features and curly hair. The head is broken off at the neck, indicating it was originally part of a larger statue. The style is consistent with Hellenistic influences, characterized by realistic and expressive features.
decorative
Ptolemaic
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 58.79.1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 74513 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.