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

Small Figurine of the Goddess Bast

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Description

Caption: Small Figurine of the Goddess Bast, 664–332 B.C.E.. Bronze, 4 15/16 x 1 9/16 x 1 11/16 in. (12.6 x 3.9 x 4.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.378E. (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.

Photograph of a small dark metal standing female figurine on a rectangular base, with one arm raised holding a staff or club-like object across the body.

The image shows a small bronze-colored statuette of a nude/closely dressed standing female figure rendered in a simplified form. The figure stands upright on a rectangular pedestal. One arm is bent with a hand raised holding a curved or club-like implement; the other arm is bent across the torso at waist/chest level. The head is topped with an indistinct hairstyle/headdress shape; specific feline features cannot be confirmed from this image. No clear inscription is visible on the base or body, and there are no legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic/Latin characters. The surface appears dark and worn, consistent with aged cast metal.

decorative Late Period (as catalogued); specific sub-period unclear from image. good
Deities Bast (attribution per catalog title; specific iconographic markers not clearly confirmable in the image)
Materials bronze (dark cast metal)

Connections

Found at Memphis
Deities Bastet

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.378E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117033 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.