Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Female Head

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 16.308. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 16.308
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Ptolemaic Period or early Roman Period
Date: late 5th to 4th century B.C.E.
Date range: 399 BCE – 301 BCE
Materials: ['Clay', 'pigment']
Height: 3.4 cm
Width: 2.8 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Catalogue description: Culture Greek Caption: Greek. Female Head, late 5th to 4th century B.C.E.. Clay, pigment, 1 5/16 x 1 1/8 x 1 in. (3.4 x 2.8 x 2.6 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, 16.308. (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 female head in grey clay with remnants of surface pigment, shown from the front with a defined wig and facial features.

The image depicts a single, head-only sculpture (no body), likely molded clay. The woman’s face has pursed lips, half-lidded eyes, and a short, rounded beard-like or stylized facial marking area may be present but the exact intent is unclear at this resolution. A molded wig or headdress forms the sides and top of the head; the hair texture is indicated with incised or modeled curls/strands across the crown. The surface shows light grey/greenish residue consistent with pigment remnants. The background is plain and no inscriptions, cartouches, or alphabetic/Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are clearly visible anywhere on the head. No identifiable deity attributes are unmistakable; therefore deity identification is uncertain.

unclear Late Ptolemaic Period or early Roman Period (per catalogue ground truth); exact date uncertain from image alone. good

Materials Claypigment (residue)

Connections

Materials Limestone Clay Pigment

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 16.308 tier-2
BKM-Object 9566 tier-2

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