Oblong Bronze Cover of a Receptacle for a Mummified Animal
Description
Caption: Oblong Bronze Cover of a Receptacle for a Mummified Animal, 332–31 B.C.E.. Bronze, 2 3/4 x 3 in. (7 x 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.64. (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 small bronze animal figure (a bird with a long curved beak) standing on a rectangular base, photographed against a plain light background.
A dark greenish-brown bronze object is depicted in side view: a stylized bird resembling an ibis or heron, with a long down-curving beak and incised details on the head/neck. The animal stands with one leg raised on top of a rectangular, stepped platform/base. The photograph appears to show light surface wear and patination across the bronze. No clear relief text or hieroglyphs are visible on the photographed surfaces, and no cartouches or royal names can be read. The catalog-described format as an oblong bronze cover for a receptacle for a mummified animal is only partially assessed here; the object depicted looks like a bronze figure with a base rather than clearly an oblong cover, but the image is not detailed enough to definitively contradict the catalogue identification.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.64 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19132 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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