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Statuette of a Priestess of Isis in Greek Costume with Egyptian Headdress

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 05.360. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 05.360
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Roman Period
Date: ca. 1st century C.E.
Date range: 0 CE – 99 CE
Materials: ['Steatite', 'glaze']
Height: 8.8 cm
Width: 2.7 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Statuette of a Priestess of Isis in Greek Costume with Egyptian Headdress (05.360). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17841

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Caption: Statuette of a Priestess of Isis in Greek Costume with Egyptian Headdress, ca. 1st century C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 3 7/16 x 1 1/16 in. (8.8 x 2.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 05.360. (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 standing female statuette shown in profile, wearing a curled wig and a garment with draped, Greco-Egyptian styling.

The image shows a single standing figure, photographed from a slight angle (left-facing profile). The woman has a molded head with a side curl/wig mass and a visible Egyptian-style headdress element over the top and sides. The torso is covered by a long, layered garment that falls to the feet, with diagonal fold lines across the body and a draped cloth effect. No clear inscriptions or legible hieroglyphs are visible on the figure in this image. The surface appears stone-like with speckling/patchy dark areas consistent with age and/or glaze remnants, but the exact material identification (steatite vs. glaze thickness) cannot be confirmed solely from the photograph. The overall iconography is consistent with a Greco-Egyptian Isis-associated priestess/worshipper type, though specific attributes of Isis (e.g., lotus/sistrum in this photo) are not clearly readable.

religious Roman Period (per catalogue; visible style suggests Roman-era Greco-Egyptian portrait/dress) good

Deities Isis (associated iconography; not explicitly identifiable from clear attributes in this image)

Materials stone (likely steatite; not confirmable from photo alone)glaze/residue (possible, dark mottling)

Connections

Deities Isis

Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 05.360 tier-2
BKM-Object 17399 tier-2

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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.