Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Reclining Sphinx
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Graeco-Egyptian Caption: Graeco-Egyptian. Reclining Sphinx, 332–ca. 31 B.C.E.. Bronze, 4 1/2 x 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (11.5 x 1.9 x 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.51. (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 small sculpture depicting a long-horned animal with a human head.
The artifact is a small, sculpted object representing a creature with the body of a quadruped and a human head, possibly a deity or mythical creature. The style is simplistic, with basic detailing, and it appears to be cast in metal.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.51 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19119 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.
- 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.