Trial Piece with a Head of a Man
Description
Caption: Trial Piece with a Head of a Man, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, 6 1/4 × 9 in. (15.8 × 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 35.882.
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 carved limestone relief depicting the profile of a person wearing a headdress.
The artifact is a limestone relief showing a detailed side profile of an individual, possibly a noble or royal figure, given the elaborate headdress. The composition is simple yet elegant, capturing the stylized features typical of ancient Egyptian art. The carving style suggests fine craftsmanship, but the piece is fragmentary, with visible damage along the edges.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 35.882 tier-2
- BKM-Object 44504 tier-2
About this record's data
- 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.