Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Standing Bastet
Description
Caption: Standing Bastet, 332–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 4 13/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 1/2 in. (12.2 x 3.6 x 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.379E. (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 feline-headed deity holding a smaller figure.
The artifact is a small statuette showing a deity with a feline head, likely representing the goddess Bastet or Sekhmet, given the lioness features. The deity is adorned in traditional Egyptian garments and holding a smaller, human-like figure. The style suggests attention to detail typical of divine representations.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
BastetSekhmet
Materials
unknown
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.379E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117035 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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