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

Statuette of the Goddess Isis Seated

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Description

Caption: Statuette of the Goddess Isis Seated, 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.566E.

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.

Photographs show a small bronze Egyptian statuette with a human figure in a standing/seated-like posture and an Isis-style crown, along with a second view of the same figure from the side/back.

The image presents two views of a bronze statuette: a front view on the left and a side/rear view on the right. In the front view, the figure wears a distinctive headdress resembling an Isis-style crown with a central element and flanking forms; a wig-like head covering is suggested, and the face is modeled with a formal, dark patinated surface. The figure’s arms are held down/at the sides; the body is slim and elongated. The object’s head has a crown with a rounded central disk and two raised elements. In the side/rear view, the same crowned head is visible, and the figure appears seated or posed on a rectangular base (or throne-like support), with the posture turned in profile. No clear cartouches are visible in either view. No carved hieroglyphs or other inscriptions are discernible at this image resolution/angle. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

religious Ptolemaic Period (catalogue ground truth; image shows classic Late Period/ Ptolemaic-style divine iconography, but exact date not confirmed by visible inscriptions) good
Deities Isis (attributed; iconography consistent but not confirmable with certainty from image alone)
Materials Bronze

Connections

Deities Isis
Materials Bronze

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.566E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117207 tier-2
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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.