Cloaked Official
Description
Object Label: The Twelfth and early Thirteenth Dynasties comprised one of the most creative artistic epochs in Egyptian history. Artists introduced many new sculptural forms—some that continued for centuries and others that were soon abandoned. One of the period’s most dramatic and long-lasting innovations was the cloaked statue. The cloak symbolized the god Osiris, whose corpse was wrapped tightly in bandages and who was eventually reborn to everlasting life. Individuals shown with their bodies shrouded in a thick mantle thus expressed the wish to be reborn following their own physical deaths. Caption: Cloaked Official, ca. 1759–1675 B.C.E.. Quartzite, 27 1/2 in. (69.8 cm) Base: 4 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. (12 x 41.3 x 42.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 62.77.1.
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 statue of an ancient Egyptian figure in a seated pose.
The artifact is a black-and-white photograph depicting a stone statue of an ancient Egyptian figure, likely a scribe, in a seated position with hands resting on the knees. The figure is adorned with a traditional coiffure, and the sculpture focuses on realistic detail with well-defined facial features.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 62.77.1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3722 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.
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