Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other
Mold for Making Comic Mask
Description
Caption: Mold for Making Comic Mask, 305 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Clay, 3 3/8 × 1 3/4 × 2 9/16 in. (8.6 × 4.5 × 6.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1916E.
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.
Two clay mask-like objects displayed on a flat surface.
The image depicts two small, mask-like clay objects laid side by side. The left object is light in color with distinct facial features including eyes, nose, and mouth, while the right object is darker and slightly more deteriorated, featuring similar facial carvings. Both objects appear to have been molded to display exaggerated human or deity-like features.
decorative
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
clay
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1916E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118421 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.