Bust of a Man
Description
Caption: Bust of a Man, late 1st century B.C.E.. Hematite, Height: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 56.18. (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 monochrome studio photograph shows a bust of a man with a smooth, dark stone/metallic surface, short curly hair, and a draped garment across the chest.
The object is presented front-facing as a bust from chest to head. The man has short, closely curled hair and a rounded facial structure with defined brows, eyes, nose, and mouth. He wears a draped garment (likely a shawl or tunic) that crosses the chest diagonally and folds over the left shoulder, with shallow incised/relief lines indicating fabric creases. The background is plain and the bust casts a soft shadow on the surface. No clearly legible inscriptions or carved hieroglyphs are visible on the bust in this image; the garment and facial modeling are the primary features. The surface appears dark and glossy, consistent with the catalogue’s stated hematite, though the image alone cannot fully confirm the mineral.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 56.18 tier-2
- BKM-Object 71285 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.