Funerary Figurine of the Chantress of Amon, Ainmose
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Funerary Figurine of the Chantress of Amon, Ainmose, ca. 1292–656 B.C.E.. Nile mud, pigment, 5 x 1 9/16 x 13/16 in. (12.7 x 4 x 2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.160E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
A small, white/painted funerary figurine stands upright, with a damaged head and a narrow torso, and a small panel of carved hieroglyphs on the front lower body.
The image shows a vertically oriented Egyptian funerary figurine photographed against a dark background. The figure has a rounded, damaged head and a simplified body shape. The surface appears predominantly light-colored (likely pigment over mud/clay), with darker speckling and traces of pigment loss. On the front of the lower torso there is a small area where hieroglyphs are carved or incised, though the individual signs are not fully legible at this resolution. A small label card is present at lower left with inventory-like writing, but it is not readable enough to quote. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No clear royal cartouche is identifiable from the photograph. No clearly identifiable deity attributes can be confirmed, though as a funerary object it may relate to standard religious iconography; the specific deity is not legible here. The catalogue attribution to the “Chantress of Amon, Ainmose” cannot be fully verified from this image alone because the inscriptions and figure details required to confirm “Amon”/the chantress role and the name “Ainmose” are not clearly readable.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.160E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116870 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.
- 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.