Vulture Headdress
Description
Caption: Vulture Headdress, ca. 1539–656 B.C.E., probably. Bronze, 4 3/4 x 4 x 5 1/8 in. (12 x 10.1 x 13 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 62.100. (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 bronze cobra statue with detailed feather patterns and a raised hood.
The artifact is a highly detailed bronze representation of a cobra, featuring a raised hood intricately decorated with feather-like designs. The head and neck are stylized, showcasing Egyptian artistic conventions, while the bronze material gives it an elegant and timeless appearance. The cobra's posture and style suggest it could be part of a protective or decorative ensemble.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 62.100 tier-2
- BKM-Object 124174 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.