Recumbent Lion
Description
Caption: Recumbent Lion, 5th century B.C.E. or later. Plaster, 5 1/8 x 9 7/16 in. (13 x 24 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, 16.53. (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.
The image shows a small, recumbent feline sculpture, long-bodied and lying on its side, with a rounded head and stylized mane markings.
A plaster object shaped as a recumbent lion/feline: the body is low and elongated, with a rounded head facing right. The mane is indicated by shallow, curved incisions running from the neck onto the upper body. The legs are simplified; the front legs are folded beneath the chest and the rear is extended. A small area near the chest/neck includes a darker patch and possible tooling marks or damage. The surface is rough and dusty in places, suggesting an aged cast. No cartouches, hieroglyphs, or other inscriptions are visible. No identifiable divine iconography beyond the generic lion form is shown.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.53 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9322 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.