Face from a Coffin
Description
Caption: Face from a Coffin, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E.. Wood, gesso, pigment, 6 1/16 x 3 1/8 x 10 7/16 in. (15.4 x 7.9 x 26.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.66.71. (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 wooden mask depicting a face with large eyes and a stylized headdress.
This artifact is a wooden mask showing a stylized human face with large almond-shaped eyes outlined in black. The facial features are simple yet distinct, with painted details suggesting eyebrows and a headdress. The mask has some signs of wear, with visible cracks and fading in the painted surface, indicating its age and use.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 48.66.71 tier-2
- BKM-Object 185806 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.