Mask from a Coffin
Description
Caption: Mask from a Coffin, ca. 1938–1292 B.C.E.. Cartonnage, 10 13/16 x 7 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. (27.5 x 18.2 x 4.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1387E. (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 painted funerary mask with a stylized human face.
The artifact is a funerary mask featuring a stylized human face with notable painted details. It is depicted with prominent eyes, and visible use of blue, gold, and red colors. The mask is worn on a fragment of funerary linen, suggesting its use in burial practices. The artistic style indicates skillful craftsmanship typical of Egyptian funerary art.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1387E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117937 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.