Head from a Sarcophagus Lid
Description
Caption: Head from a Sarcophagus Lid, 381–30 B.C.E.. Indurated limestone, 17 5/16 x 16 9/16 x 12 in., 113 lb. (44 x 42 x 30.5 cm, 51.26kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.56. (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.
A sculpted stone head with closed eyes and stylized facial features, shown frontally within a rounded form consistent with a sarcophagus-lid head element.
The image depicts the front view of a human head carved in stone, with a rounded skull and a defined forehead. The eyes are rendered as shallow, half-lidded forms; the nose is prominent and centered; and the mouth is small with straight or slightly downturned corners. The ears are asymmetrically preserved but clearly indicated on both sides. Across the brow and upper face there is faint ornamentation/tooling lines, but no clearly legible hieroglyphs or cartouches are visible on the shown surface. The back and sides beyond the face are worn/broken, with a rough, mottled surface suggesting weathering and age-related abrasion. No paint pigments or metal inserts are clearly identifiable from the photo, though the stone surface appears matte and pitted.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 33.56 tier-2
- BKM-Object 35967 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.