Face from a Sarcophagus Cover
Description
Caption: Face from a Sarcophagus Cover, ca. 1539–1400 B.C.E.. Granite, 6 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 3 3/8 in. (16.8 × 16.5 × 8.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.207. (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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian stone face with detailed features.
The artifact is a partial sculpture, possibly a mask or a fragment of a statue's face, crafted from a dark stone. It displays finely-carved features, including eyes and a gentle smile, indicating skilled craftsmanship. Despite being fragmented, it retains a polished finish, suggesting it was a prominent piece originally.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.207 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9474 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.