Head of a Child
Description
Caption: Head of a Child, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 1 9/16 x 1 3/8 x 1 7/16 in. (4 x 3.5 x 3.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.304. (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 photographed stone/terracotta sculpted head of a child, shown frontally against a plain background.
The image shows a rounded sculptural head with smooth surfaces and simplified facial features: heavy eyelids, a straight nose, and a small, closed mouth. The hair appears minimal and the head is roughly modeled, suggesting a small sculptural portrait fragment. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or textual inscriptions are visible on the surface, and no identifiable deities or royal iconography are clearly present. Faint darker areas appear to be remnants of pigment or wear, consistent with a painted terracotta object. The background is plain and the image appears to be a museum-style photographic documentation rather than an excavation photograph.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.304 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9562 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.
- 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.