Face from the Lid of a Sarcophagus
Description
Object Label: The broad, flat character of this face indicates that it came from a sarcophagus. The fillet with lotus flowers is a symbol of light, life, and rebirth. The work's dating is based on its style: the organic modeling, heavily lidded eyes, and full, sensuous lips turned up in a smile find their best parallels in art of late Dynasty XVIII and early Dynasty XIX. Caption: Face from the Lid of a Sarcophagus, ca. 1336–1250 B.C.E.. Sandstone, 18 × 17 × 5 in. (45.7 × 43.2 × 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 85.166.
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.
The artifact is a dark stone depiction of a human head with a serene expression and tight cap-like headgear.
This is a dark stone sculpture representing a human head, characterized by smooth, idealized features typical of ancient Egyptian art. The head is adorned with a close-fitting cap that suggests either royal or noble status. The sculpture is relatively intact, though it shows signs of age and surface wear, indicating its antiquity.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 85.166 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3918 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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