Figure of the Goddess Nephthys
Description
Caption: Figure of the Goddess Nephthys, ca. 664–30 B.C.E.. Wood, pigment, 16 × 4 3/8 × 11 3/8 in. (40.6 × 11.1 × 28.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 11.681.
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.
Painted wooden Egyptian deity figure seated cross-legged on a rectangular base, with a tall cylindrical headdress and hands raised in a gesture.
The image shows a human-form figure seated cross-legged on a rectangular, painted block. The head and face are painted in light tones with stylized features and a blue striped band around the crown/headdress area. The headdress is tall and cylindrical/column-like. The figure’s torso is nude or minimally dressed, painted in pale skin tones, and the left arm/hand is raised with fingers held in an offering- or gesture-like pose. The seated body is painted blue and beige with visible losses and flaking. The base is decorated with dense vertical columns of painted symbols in black, blue, and yellow/ochre, resembling painted hieroglyphic text or decorative registration. No clearly legible individual signs are fully resolved at this resolution. There is no visible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text. No cartouche or royal name is clearly visible.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 11.681 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3074 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.