Group of the Goddess Sekhmet Standing Surmounted by the Sun Disk within the Embrace of a Jackal - Headed Bird
Description
Caption: Group of the Goddess Sekhmet Standing Surmounted by the Sun Disk within the Embrace of a Jackal - Headed Bird, 664–332 B.C.E.. Bronze, 3 7/16 × 1 × 3 in. (8.7 × 2.5 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.689E. (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.
A small statuette depicting a seated animal, possibly a lioness, with an object in its forepaws.
The artifact is a statuette of a seated animal, likely a lioness, which appears to be holding an object in its forepaws, possibly a disk or sphere. The figure is detailed, with visible facial features and a defined body posture. The style suggests simplicity and elegance, characteristic of small Egyptian statuettes. The composition is three-dimensional, focusing on the animal's presence and posture.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.689E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117297 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.