Sobek
Description
Caption: Sobek, 664–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 5 x 1 x 1 3/4 in., 0.2 lb. (12.7 x 2.5 x 4.4 cm, 0.11kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.37. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth, photographer))
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.
Bronze statuette of a standing, human-bodied crocodile-deity figure holding a staff/scepter and wearing a tall crown, presented full-length.
The image shows a small dark bronze statuette standing in profile/three-quarter view. The figure has the distinctive crocodile/serpent head form associated with Sobek, with a stylized snout and open mouth. The deity stands upright on a rectangular base, with legs slightly apart. One arm is raised holding a long staff/scepter-like object, while the other arm gestures toward the body. The figure wears a tall, arched crown/headpiece and a textured patterned garment or kilt at the waist. There are no clearly readable inscriptions or clearly legible hieroglyphic bands visible on the body or base in this photograph, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text appears.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.37 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19106 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.