Lion Head
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Graeco-Egyptian Caption: Graeco-Egyptian. Lion Head, 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Bronze, 2 11/16 x 2 1/4 in. (6.9 x 5.7 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, 16.259. (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 bronze artifact depicting the head of a lion.
The artifact is a sculptural representation of a lion's head made from bronze. It is intricately detailed, with features such as the mane and facial structure clearly defined. The style suggests an emphasis on naturalistic representation popular in certain periods of Egyptian art. The top of the head shows a flattened area, possibly indicating the artifact was once part of a larger structure or used for attachment.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.259 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3167 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.