Royal Head
Description
Caption: Royal Head, 4th century B.C.E.. Limestone, 8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in. (21 x 17 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.169.
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 profile view of a damaged bust depicting an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
The image shows a side profile of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's bust with a headdress. The piece displays detailed carving of the headdress, though the facial features are somewhat eroded. The style suggests attention to royal portraiture typical of Egyptian art. Notably, the headdress is elaborate, indicating royal status.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.169 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3152 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.