Falcon Head
Description
Caption: Falcon Head, 664–525 B.C.E., or earlier. Bronze, gold, 1 1/4 × 1 5/16 × 1 5/16 in. (3.1 × 3.3 × 3.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.107. (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 black figure representing the head of a falcon.
The artifact is a small, sculpted figure depicting the head of a falcon. The material appears black with traces of gold, suggesting it might have been gilded. The style is simplistic, with minimal detailing except for the prominent eyes and beak typical of falcon depictions in Egyptian art.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.107 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9364 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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