Female Head
Description
Caption: Female Head, 305 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Clay, pigment, 2 1/2 x 1 9/16 x 2 in. (6.4 x 3.9 x 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.231. (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.
The image shows a painted female figurine head in a rounded, front-facing style, with incised details for the eyes, brows, and lips and a head covering or wig-like headdress.
A single sculpted head is photographed against a light background. The face is modeled with thick, rounded cheeks and a short, straight mouth; the eyes are indicated with shallow incisions or recessed areas, and the eyebrows are visible as carved ridges. The hair appears to be covered by a textured wig or headdress, rendered with stippled/roughened surfaces and band-like contours around the top and sides. No clear inscriptions are visible on the head or around the background. The surface has mottled light-and-dark areas consistent with pigment remnants over a clay body. No cartouche, royal name, or readable hieroglyphic text can be confidently identified in this image. The overall subject matches the catalogue designation of a 'Female Head' (Ptolemaic/Roman Egypt) in that it is clearly a female-presenting head sculpture, though the exact period cannot be verified from this single photo alone.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.231 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9497 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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