King Shabaka?
Description
Caption: King Shabaka?, ca. 716–702 B.C.E.. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 × 3 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (17.8 × 8.3 × 11.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Edna R. Russmann, 2018.52.
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.
Stone fragment carved with a human face, likely the lower portion of a royal statue or cult figure.
The image shows an irregular, tapered stone object (top broader than bottom) carved in the round. At the lower end there is a rounded face with pronounced cheeks, a broad nose, and a visible mouth/chin; the surface is worn and chipped, obscuring fine details. Two ear-like projections flank the head area, suggesting a standing or seated figure shown from the shoulders upward, though only the lower portion is preserved. No clearly readable hieroglyphs or royal cartouches are visible in this view. There is also no distinct Greek/Coptic/Arabic text apparent. The overall surface appears weathered with small pits and losses consistent with stone sculpture in poor-to-fragmentary condition.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 2018.52 tier-2
- BKM-Object 223684 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.