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

Bust of a Man

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

unclear Old Kingdom fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Stone

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.