Sunk Relief of a God or Deified King
Description
Object Label: The identification of this figure is based on his long, curved beard and the remains of a solar disk resting immediately above his head in the manner of a crown. Two stylistic details that occur sporadically in various periods are the hollow drilling of the hair curls and the sculptural demarcation of the eye's iris Caption: Sunk Relief of a God or Deified King, ca. 874–773 B.C.E.. Limestone, 17 1/8 × 16 15/16 × 1 15/16 in. (43.5 × 43 × 5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 75.167. (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 limestone relief depicting a profile of an ancient Egyptian figure wearing detailed attire.
The artifact is a limestone relief showing a profile view of a figure, likely from a royal or religious context, due to the elaborate attire and headgear. The headdress is detailed with patterns likely denoting significance. The carving style is consistent with traditional Egyptian relief work, with precise and clear lines emphasizing the figure’s features and attire. The background is unadorned, focusing attention on the figure itself.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 75.167 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4238 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.