Small Composite God with Jackal Head and Bird's Tail
Description
Caption: Small Composite God with Jackal Head and Bird's Tail, 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 1 1/2 × 1 1/16 × 1 1/8 in. (3.8 × 2.7 × 2.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.543E. (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.
Small bronze figurine of a seated composite deity-like figure with an animal head and an elongated tail-like element extending upward.
The image shows a small, dark green-brown metal object photographed against a light background. The figure appears seated or crouched, with a rounded animal head/upper face element and a long, narrow projecting form that reads as a tail or bird-like appendage. The body has simplified modeling with thick contours and worn/rounded details consistent with casting and age. No clear carved hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscription bands are visible on the visible surfaces of the object in this photo. The metal surface shows uneven patination and minor wear, with a glossy-to-matte patina consistent with bronze corrosion.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.543E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117186 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.