Head of a Jackal
Description
Caption: Head of a Jackal, ca. 1539 B.C.E. or later. Wood, stucco, pigment, 6 3/16 x 5 5/16 in. (15.7 x 13.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1530E. (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.
An Egyptian artifact depicting the head of an animal, likely a jackal.
The artifact is a sculpted representation of a jackal head, characterized by elongated ears and a prominent snout. The piece is primarily black, with visible signs of wear and patina indicative of age. The style is simplistic yet emblematic of typical animal depictions in Egyptian art. The composition suggests it may have been part of a larger piece, possibly a statue or a funerary object.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1530E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118057 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.