Head of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Wig
Description
Caption: Head of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Wig, ca. 1352–1190 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 6 3/4 × 4 3/4 × 7 1/4 in. (17.1 × 12.1 × 18.4 cm) mount: 7 × 6 1/2 × 5 in. (17.8 × 16.5 × 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.256E. (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 painted limestone head of a woman with a broad wig covering both sides of the face and extending back over the skull.
The artifact is a fragmentary sculpted head shown frontally. The woman’s face has defined eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, and a small, closed mouth. The hairstyle/wig is rendered in thick, textured strands and waves that hang down at the sides, with the top of the wig forming a rounded mass. Remnants of brown and darker pigment remain on the face and wig, suggesting the figure was originally painted. No carved hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other inscriptions are visible on the provided surface. No associated attributes of specific deities are clearly identifiable from the image alone.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.256E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116948 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.
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