Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Incomplete Statuette

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 16.276. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 16.276
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Ptolemaic Period (possibly)
Date: 145–30 B.C.E.
Date range: 145 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['Terracotta']
Height: 10.8 cm
Width: 5.8 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Caption: Incomplete Statuette, 145–30 B.C.E.. Terracotta, 4 1/4 x 2 5/16 x 1 11/16 in. (10.8 x 5.8 x 4.3 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, 16.276. (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 fragmentary Egyptian terracotta figurine/statuette showing the head and upper torso of a human figure with a simplified face and short hair.

The image shows an incomplete small statuette rendered in a light-colored, fired clay. The piece preserves the head with a worn/smoothed facial area, including simplified eyes and a mouth, and a short, rounded coiffure/hairline. The neck and upper torso are visible, with the arms partially preserved: the left arm appears bent and held close to the body, while the right side is damaged. The lower portion of the figurine is missing or broken off, consistent with the catalogue description “Incomplete Statuette.” No clearly readable hieroglyphs or cartouches are visible on the preserved surfaces, and there is no evident Greek/Coptic/Arabic text. The weathered surface and fracture edges suggest age-related breaks and handling wear.

royal Late Ptolemaic Period (possibly), as per catalogue; exact date unclear from image alone. fragmentary

Materials Terracotta (fired clay)

Connections

Materials Limestone Terracotta

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 16.276 tier-2
BKM-Object 9534 tier-2

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