Figure of Anubis
Description
Caption: Figure of Anubis, 664–332 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 1/16 x 3/8 x 11/16 in. (5.3 x 0.9 x 1.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1017E. (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 Egyptian figurine depicting a standing deity with a jackal head.
This artifact is a small, upright figurine representing a deity with the distinctive head of a jackal, identified as Anubis. The figure is standing with hands by its sides and is wearing a short kilt. The craftsmanship suggests attention to proportion and detail, typical of Egyptian representations of gods. The material appears to be a type of glazed faience, common in decorative objects.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1017E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117594 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.