Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Fragment of a Head with Shaven Skull
Description
Caption: Fragment of a Head with Shaven Skull, 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Basalt, 5 3/8 × 4 3/4 × 2 3/8 in. (13.7 × 12.1 × 6 cm) 3 lb. (1.36kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 57.42.
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 black stone sculpture of a head with stylized facial features.
The artifact is a small black stone sculpture representing a human head, characterized by stylized and abstract features. The sculpture has a smooth surface with defined eyes and a partial nose, suggesting intentional artistic abstraction. The head is supported by a simple modern stand.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 57.42 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3630 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.