Bust of a Man
Description
Caption: Bust of a Man, ca. 2338–2298 B.C.E.. Quartzite, 4 5/8 × 4 1/16 × 2 13/16 in. (11.8 × 10.3 × 7.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 67.69.1. (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 stone bust of an ancient Egyptian figure wearing a wig.
The artifact is a fragmentary stone bust of an ancient Egyptian figure, possibly male, depicted with a traditional short wig. The style is typical of Old Kingdom art, characterized by a focus on realistic proportions and subtle detailing around the eyes and mouth. The figure is missing lower body parts and shows signs of weathering, indicating its antiquity.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 67.69.1 tier-2
- BKM-Object 90998 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.