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-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.
A photographed terracotta vessel/figurative container preserving a molded face of a bearded satyr-like figure with painted traces and a hollow opening at the top.
The image shows a vertically oriented, roughly oval terracotta object shaped like or attached to a container, with the top portion forming an opening. The front surface is dominated by a molded, frontal face: heavy eyelids/arched brow, a small nose, pursed lips, and a stylized moustache and beard. The beard and hair are indicated by incised/raised lines around the lower half of the face. Areas of dark pigment appear in recessed features and along the outer contours, suggesting original painted decoration or later pigment adherence. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic inscriptions are visible in the provided view; the decoration is sculptural rather than textual. The overall weathering and surface pitting indicate age-related deterioration, though the facial features remain mostly preserved. The catalogue description as a “Container with Face of a Satyr” is broadly consistent with the satyr-like, bearded face rendered in the mold, with no clear contradictory imagery visible.
Connections
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.