Vessel with a Falcon's Head
Description
Caption: Vessel with a Falcon's Head, ca. 945–889 B.C.E.. Faience, 8 7/8 × 6 1/8 × 5 5/16 in. (22.5 × 15.5 × 13.5 cm) mount: 9 1/4 × 6 × 7 in. (23.5 × 15.2 × 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.313E. (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 blue-green faience artifact depicting a falcon with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a vessel shaped like a falcon, rendered in blue-green faience. Notable features include a detailed falcon head and body with incised plumage. Two cartouches with hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible at the lower front. The style indicates craftsmanship typical of faience work, with smooth surfaces and a partially worn appearance.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.313E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116989 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.