Figure of Osiris
Description
Caption: Figure of Osiris, 4th century B.C.E. or later. Wood, calcium ground, gold alloy leaf, copper alloy, polychromy, 8 15/16 x 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. (22.7 x 6.4 x 4.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1375Ea-b. (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.
Golden figurine of an ancient Egyptian deity with arms crossed.
The artifact is a gilded wooden statuette depicting an ancient Egyptian deity. The figure stands upright with arms crossed over the chest, a common pose seen in representations of Osiris. The statue's surface shows signs of wear, with some flaking of the gold leaf revealing the wooden core underneath. Notable features include its headdress and the detailed facial features. Despite damage, the craftsmanship indicates fine detailing traditional to Egyptian artistic styles.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1375Ea-b tier-2
- BKM-Object 117926 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.