Figure of Harpocrates
Description
Caption: Figure of Harpocrates, 305–30 B.C.E., or later. Clay, pigment, 7 5/8 x 1 1/4 x 2 5/8 in. (19.3 x 3.1 x 6.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1622E.
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 Egyptian terracotta figure shows a bearded male deity seated in a rigid pose, wearing a tall conical/crown-like headdress and holding a long staff or attribute.
The image depicts a standing/seated human-like figure rendered in light-colored clay with traces of painted decoration. The figure has a prominent face with a beard and a stylized headdress that rises to a point above the head. One arm is raised across the body holding a curved/long object, while the other side shows the arm bent near the torso. The body wears layered garments rendered with vertical incised folds. The figure is backed/anchored by a block-like base with a simplified platform border. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or alphabetic text are visible at this resolution. The pose and iconography are consistent with a small deity figurine, though specific identification as Harpocrates cannot be confirmed visually from the available image details alone.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1622E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118147 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.