Top of Staff in the Form of Two Hathor Cow Heads
Description
Caption: Top of Staff in the Form of Two Hathor Cow Heads, ca. 664–343 B.C.E.. Bronze, 6 1/8 x 15/16 in. (15.6 x 2.4 cm) 6 5/16 × 7/8 × 5/8 in. (16 × 2.3 × 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.581E. (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.
Bronze staff-top element with a bifurcated top ending in two outwardly curving heads, each with an eye-like detail, suggestive of a bovine/feline head motif.
The image shows a single vertical bronze object photographed against a uniform light-gray background. The lower portion is a plain cylindrical stem. Near the top, the metal splits into two vertical, outward-curving arms that end in rounded forms resembling animal heads; each head face appears to have a small circular/oval eye detail. Overall workmanship and iconography are consistent with a decorative staff finial. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or non-Egyptian scripts are visible, and no inscriptions are apparent on the stem or at the top. The photographed surfaces show bronze patina/oxidation and minor darkening around the joins of the two head elements.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.581E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117222 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.
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