Small Female Head
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Small Female Head, 170 B.C.E.–100 C.E.. Clay, pigment, 1 9/16 x 15/16 x 1 1/8 in. (3.9 x 2.5 x 2.8 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, 16.316. (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.
Grayish molded head of a small female figure, shown in close-up against a plain background, with worn facial features and surface abrasion consistent with an antiquities object.
The image shows a small, head-only sculpture or head element, likely made of molded clay and coated with pigment, photographed from a front three-quarter angle. The facial area is heavily abraded: the eyes and mouth are suggested by shallow incised/relieved features, and the nose and lips are worn but still discernible. Darker traces on the surface may represent remaining pigment or weathering. Hair and/or a headdress arrangement is visible as a rough band along the top and sides, but fine details are lost. No clear hieroglyphs or inscriptions are visible on the head, and no cartouches, royal names, or deity iconography can be identified with confidence. The object’s silhouette and “female head” subject match the catalogue title in that it is indeed a head of a human figure; however, the exact hairstyle/headdress and any symbolic associations are too unclear to identify further.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.316 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9574 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.