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

Fragment of a Hand From a Colossal Statue

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Description

Caption: Fragment of a Hand From a Colossal Statue, 664–30 B.C.E.. Basalt, 1 13/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 5/16 in. (4.6 x 9.2 x 11 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.264E. (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.

Fragment of a sculpted artifact with smooth surfaces and dark color.

This image displays a fragment of an ancient Egyptian artifact, appearing to be part of a larger sculpted object. The dark surface suggests a high-polish finish, possibly indicating the use of a hard stone like diorite or basalt. The fragment's curvature and form may have been part of a figurative sculpture, potentially from a larger statue.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials unknown

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.264E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 116949 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.
  • 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.