Figure of Re-Horakhty
Description
Caption: Figure of Re-Horakhty, 305–200 B.C.E.. Faience, 5 1/16 × 1 3/16 × 1 5/8 in. (12.8 × 3 × 4.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 71.40. (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 statuette depicting a falcon-headed deity, likely Ra-Horakhty.
This artifact is a small statuette representing a falcon-headed god, possibly Ra-Horakhty, due to the presence of the sun disk atop the head. The figure is adorned with a traditional kilt and holds an ankh in its right hand, which is a symbol of life. The style is consistent with ancient Egyptian artistic conventions, with attention to detail evident in the depiction of musculature and attire.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 71.40 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3802 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.