Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry
One of the Four Sons of Horus
Description
Caption: One of the Four Sons of Horus, ca. 945–712 B.C.E.. Wax, 37.1808Ea: Human-headed god: 2 5/16 × 7/8 × 1/2 in. (5.9 × 2.3 × 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1808Ea.
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.
Small ancient Egyptian figurine shaped like a mummified figure.
The artifact is a figurine resembling a mummified individual, likely an ushabti. It is carved from stone, showing a simplified form suitable for inclusion in a tomb. The style is characteristic of burial goods which were meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife, indicative of funerary purposes.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1808Ea tier-2
- BKM-Object 118328 tier-2
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