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-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 small, carved stone lion figurine.
The artifact is a small, roughly carved stone figurine depicting a reclining lion. The surface shows signs of wear, suggesting age. The style is somewhat simplistic without intricate detail, indicating it may serve a decorative or symbolic purpose rather than being a high-status object.
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.