Female Head
Description
Provenance: Culture Graeco-Egyptian Caption: Graeco-Egyptian. Female Head, 1st century B.C.E.–1st century C.E.. Limestone, stone, pigment, 14 x 10 1/4 in. (35.5 x 26 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, 16.236. (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 sculpted head of a female figure with detailed hair and crown.
The artifact is a sculpted head depicting a female figure with intricate hair design and a crown, possibly indicating nobility or divinity. The sculpture is made from a stone material with visible wear and damage, suggesting age. The facial features are finely carved, and the eyes are deeply set, which might have originally contained inlays.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.236 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9502 tier-2
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- 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.
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