Fantastic Head
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Phoenician Caption: Phoenician. Fantastic Head, second half 7th century–5th century B.C.E.. Glass, 1 1/16 x 11/16 x 11/16 in. (2.7 x 1.7 x 1.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1654E. (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 carved faience or stone artifact resembling a falcon or bird's head.
The image depicts a small, carved object possibly made of faience or stone, shaped like a bird's head, likely a falcon. The artifact displays stylistic characteristics typical of Egyptian art, such as emphasized eyes and a beak-like structure. Its craftsmanship suggests it might have been used as an amulet or a decorative piece.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1654E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118178 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.