Small Statue of Imhotep
Description
Caption: Small Statue of Imhotep, 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 4 1/2 x 1 3/16 x 2 5/16 in. (11.5 x 3 x 5.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.373E. (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 seated Egyptian figure statue holding a scroll.
The artifact is a small, seated statue depicting a figure in traditional Egyptian attire, characterized by a distinctive pleated skirt. The figure is holding a scroll, indicative of a scribe or scholar, with detailed facial features and an ornamented collar. The composition is balanced, with the figure sitting upright on a block-like seat, typical of Egyptian statuary.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.373E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117029 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.