Tile with Winged Crowned Female Sphinx
Description
Caption: Tile with Winged Crowned Female Sphinx, 3rd century B.C.E.. Faience, 2 3/8 × 2 3/8 × 5/8 in. (6.1 × 6.1 × 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 68.19. (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 relief of a sphinx with wings on a stone fragment.
This artifact depicts a sphinx with wings on a stone relief. The carving technique is shallow, with attention to the curvilinear features of the sphinx, including its wings and distinctive head. The stone is weathered, indicating significant age or exposure to elements. The sphinx wears a headdress which hints at a connection to royalty or divinity.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 68.19 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3769 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.