Bottle in the Form of a Mother and Child
Description
Object Label: "Mother-and-child" bottles were made throughout the Eighteenth Dynasty. Their function is far from certain. One possible explanation is that they contained the milk of mothers who had recently delivered a male child. Medical texts frequently mention such milk as an effective remedy for a variety of ailments. Caption: Bottle in the Form of a Mother and Child, ca. 1479–1352 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, Height: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 61.9. (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 small statue depicting a woman holding a child.
This is a stone sculpture featuring a seated woman with a child on her lap. The woman appears to be wearing a shawl or headdress, and the child is intricately carved, suggesting care in detail. The style is naturalistic, capturing gentle expressions and careful textures, common in Middle Kingdom private statuary.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 61.9 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3704 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.
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