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

Funerary Figurine of the Priest Nesi-Kedwet

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Description

Caption: Funerary Figurine of the Priest Nesi-Kedwet, 525–343 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 3/16 x 1 1/4 in. (10.6 x 3.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.198E. (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 small standing funerary figurine in faience-like material, modeled as a kneeling/standing male priest figure with a broad collar and stylized facial features.

The image shows a single anthropomorphic figurine photographed against a dark background. The figure has a shaved-head wig or tight hairstyle, a beaded/broad collar around the neck, and arms folded across the chest with hands held in front. The body is decorated with incised/raised linear bands and what appear to be vertical hieroglyph-like marks on the torso. The feet rest on a small base; overall proportions and styling are consistent with Late Period funerary priest figurines. No clearly legible cartouche or full name is visible at this resolution. No deities are confidently identifiable from the surface details shown.

funerary Late Period (catalogue ground truth) good
Materials faience (glazed ceramic surface suggested)
Signs Incised/raised hieroglyph-like vertical strokes/bands on the torso (unreadable)

Connections

Found at Giza
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.198E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 116905 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.