Container with Face of a Satyr
Description
Caption: Container with Face of a Satyr, 30 B.C.E.–100 C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 4 7/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 1/8 in. (11.3 x 5.6 x 5.4 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, 16.318. (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 weathered limestone relief depicting a human head.
The artifact is a limestone relief featuring a detailed depiction of a human head in profile. The style of the carving suggests skill in capturing human features, though the surface is weathered. Notable features include a prominent brow and detailed facial expression.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.318 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9576 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.