Cartonnage Mask of a Woman
Description
Caption: Cartonnage Mask of a Woman, 1st century C.E.. Linen, gesso, gold leaf, glass, faience, 23 x 14 x 9 in. (58.4 x 35.6 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 69.35. (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 gilded bust of a figure with a headdress and decorative necklace.
The artifact is a gilded mummy portrait depicting a figure adorned with an ornate headdress and a detailed necklace of circular decorations. The figure holds a bunch of grapes and wears a gold-colored garment. The style is characteristic of funerary masks, combining both Hellenistic and Egyptian elements, indicative of the Roman Period in Egypt.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 69.35 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3778 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.
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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.