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

Headdress from a Statuette of a Goddess

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Description

Caption: Headdress from a Statuette of a Goddess, 664–30 B.C.E.. Bronze. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.547E. (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 metal artifact depicting a bird, possibly with symbolic significance.

The image shows a metallic artifact in the form of a bird. The bird appears stylized and might hold an additional symbolic object on its back. The craftsmanship suggests possible ceremonial or symbolic use. The object stands on a small pedestal indicating it might have been displayed or used in rituals.

decorative unknown good
Materials metal

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Metal

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.547E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117190 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.
  • 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.