Male Head
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Male Head, 525–404 B.C.E., 343–332 B.C.E. or 30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Terracotta, 1 15/16 × 1 11/16 × 1 3/4 in. (4.9 × 4.3 × 4.4 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, 16.303. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
An ancient Egyptian sculpture resembling a curled-up animal or abstract form.
This stone artifact appears to be a carved figure with a roughly textured surface, suggestive of erosion or age. The form hints at a curled posture, possibly representing an animal or abstract concept. The carving style is rudimentary, lacking detailed features that would identify specific iconography.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.303 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9561 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.