Falcon Coffin
Description
Caption: Falcon Coffin, 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 8 9/16 × 2 15/16 × 7 1/16 in. (21.8 × 7.5 × 18 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.367E. (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 bronze-like, seated falcon-shaped funerary object with molded wings and legs, decorated with incised bands of markings across the torso.
The image shows a three-dimensional, falcon-form artifact viewed against a light background. The falcon’s head faces forward, with a beak and defined head plumage. The wings are rendered in relief along the sides, and the legs are separated with visible talons gripping downward. Across the body and chest there are incised/recessed decorative bands resembling stylized feather lines or funerary/inscription-like stripes; some grouped elements near the upper chest resemble hieroglyphic-style signs but are not legible enough to confidently identify specific signs. No clear Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No cartouches or royal names are clearly readable. The surface appears dark brown to bronze-gray with wear/patina.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.367E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117024 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.