Upper Part of a Sistrum
Description
Caption: Upper Part of a Sistrum, ca. 1539–1190 B.C.E., or later. Wood, pigment, 5 1/4 x 2 5/16 x 5/8 in. (13.4 x 5.8 x 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.436E. (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 artifact depicting the face of a figure, possibly a goddess or a pharaoh.
The artifact appears to be a wooden headrest or decorative object featuring a stylized human face, which may represent a deity or a pharaoh. The top of the object is carved in an ornate fashion with several slots, suggesting it may have had a functional or symbolic purpose. The facial features are detailed with emphasis on the eyes and headdress, typical of Egyptian iconography.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.436E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117086 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.