Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Vessel in the Form of a Kneeling Woman

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Description

Caption: Vessel in the Form of a Kneeling Woman, ca. 1479–1352 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 3 13/16 x 2 in. (9.7 x 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 49.53. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small green-glazed kneeling female figurative vessel with a rounded head and stylized facial features, holding an object/bowl in both hands.

The image shows a ceramic/stone vessel formed in the shape of a kneeling woman. The figure has a stylized, symmetrical face with arched brows and a small mouth, and wears a close-fitting head covering/biar-like headdress. The woman kneels with her torso upright; one arm is bent so that both hands extend forward holding a circular basin/utensil shape at the front. The body is rendered with incised/raised decorative lines across the chest and a patterned garment effect over the lap. The vessel has a wide, rounded top opening and a globular belly; a darkened rim suggests where the opening is. The overall surface is uniformly coated in a green glaze with darker pooled areas and uneven gloss, consistent with a glazed steatite object. No clear hieroglyphic text, cartouches, or alphabetic inscriptions are visible on the figure in this view.

decorative New Kingdom (as catalogued) good
Materials glaze (green)stony body consistent with steatite

Connections

Materials Glaze

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 49.53 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3534 tier-2
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