Statuette of the Child Horus
Description
Caption: Statuette of the Child Horus, ca. 305–200 B.C.E.. Bronze, 5 1/16 x 1 x 2 1/4 in. (12.9 x 2.6 x 5.7 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, 16.319. (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 small bronze Egyptian standing figurine shows a youthful male child with a distinctive head covering, one hand raised to the face and the other at the side, standing on a rectangular base.
The image depicts a patinated bronze statuette of a standing child figure. The figure has a narrow torso and slim limbs, with one hand held up near the mouth/face (fingers curled) and the other arm relaxed along the body. The head has a tall, pointed/streamlined headdress or cap shape; facial details are worn but the eyes/nose are indicated. The statuette stands upright on a simple rectangular pedestal base. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text are visible on the pedestal or body at this resolution. The object’s surface shows dark-to-reddish brown patination and wear consistent with bronze corrosion and age.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.319 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3168 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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