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

Inlay in Form of Jackal-Headed God

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Description

Caption: Inlay in Form of Jackal-Headed God, 525–30 B.C.E.. Glass, 2 1/16 x 1/2 x 3/16 in. (5.3 x 1.2 x 0.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1736E. (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.

Small orange-red carved/fragmentary inlay piece shaped like a jackal-headed deity figure, with a frontal head and a patterned body area.

The image shows a single small object photographed on a light gray/blue textured background. The object is an orange-red material with a rounded top and a protruding jackal-like head silhouette. The front face includes a central vertical/rectangular element resembling an upright uraeus/wadjet-like form or facial/diadem detail, with faint engraved bands and paneling across the torso. The body appears to taper slightly and ends in a flat base; fine surface wear and minor chips are visible. No clear cartouche or royal titulary is present. Below the object there is an identification label written in black pencil/marker that reads something like “371/736E” (handwritten, not an ancient script). No hieroglyphic text, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions are legible on the object itself in this image.

religious Persian Period or Ptolemaic Period (as given by catalogue; exact period not determinable from this image alone) fragmentary
Deities jackal-headed god (exact deity unknown; catalogue suggests jackal-headed god)
Materials glass (catalogue-listed; visual appearance is consistent with a colored material but the image alone cannot confirm glass)

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Deities Anubis
Materials Terracotta

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1736E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 118258 tier-2
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  • 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.