Small Statuette of the Child Horus
Description
Caption: Small Statuette of the Child Horus, 305–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 3 11/16 × 13/16 × 1 1/16 in. (9.3 × 2 × 2.7 cm) Height without tang: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.933E.
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 small bronze statue of a child deity standing on a base.
The artifact is a bronze statue depicting a youthful deity, possibly associated with Horus due to the sidelock hairstyle. The figure stands upright on a simple block base, with detailed facial and body features. The style suggests a focus on divine youth, common in certain depictions of deities like Horus the Child in Ancient Egypt.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.933E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117517 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.