Tile with Winged, Crowned Sphinx
Description
Caption: Tile with Winged, Crowned Sphinx, 3rd century B.C.E.. Faience, 2 5/8 x 9/16 x 2 5/8 in. (6.7 x 1.4 x 6.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 59.33.1. (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 relief depicting a mythological creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human wearing a headdress.
The artifact features a carved relief of a mythological creature resembling a sphinx or griffin, known for its hybrid characteristics combining a lion's body with a human head adorned with a headdress. The style suggests a blend of artistic influences, with attention to detail in the creature's mane and musculature, characteristic of ancient Egyptian artistry.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 59.33.1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3672 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.