Head of an Eros
Description
Caption: Head of an Eros, 1st–2nd century C.E.. Marble, 3 1/4 × 2 9/16 × 2 7/16 in. (8.3 × 6.5 × 6.2 cm) H. with tang: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 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, 16.653. (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 small carved head on a dark support pin, shown frontally, with short wavy hair and soft facial features.
The image shows a worn sculpture head positioned against light fabric. The face is carved in shallow relief-like detail with arched eyebrows, half-closed eyes, a small nose, and a closed mouth. The hair is rendered in short, wavy locks covering the top of the head. A vertical dark element (likely a mounting pin or support) extends from the bottom of the head. No legible inscriptions or carved symbols are visible on the head or around it in the provided view. The surface appears stone/stone-like with weathering and small chips. The museum catalogue describes this as a ‘Head of an Eros’ made of marble (Early Roman Period, Egypt). While the portrait style (young, idealized male) is compatible with Roman erotic/putto imagery, the image does not provide any Egyptian hieroglyphs or clear Greek inscription that would directly confirm the subject as Eros. Therefore, agreement is based only on stylistic plausibility, not on explicit iconographic text.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.653 tier-2
- BKM-Object 10142 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.