Toilet Dish Held by a Figure of a Woman Floating
Description
Caption: Toilet Dish Held by a Figure of a Woman Floating, ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E.. Ivory, 1 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (3.1 x 13.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.611E. (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 nude female figurine with prominent features, possibly representing a fertility figure.
The artifact is a wooden statuette depicting a nude female figure with stylized body proportions, possibly serving as a fertility symbol. The figure exhibits exaggerated female features, which are characteristic of representations intended to emphasize fertility. The surface shows signs of wear, indicating age.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.611E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117240 tier-2
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- 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.
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