Head and Bust of Neith
Description
Caption: Head and Bust of Neith, Bronze, 3 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (9.3 x 3.5 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, 16.382. (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 small bronze figurative bust showing a male- or androgynous-looking head and shoulders wearing a tall conical crown, presented upright on a base.
The image shows a standing/raised, truncated figure (head and upper torso) with a long, narrow neck and a stylized face with heavy brows, almond-shaped eyes, and a short, straight mouth. The head is topped by a tall, cylindrical-to-conical crown/headpiece. The upper torso is smooth and simplified, with minimal detail aside from a raised, rounded form where the shoulders and chest meet. No clear inscribed lines or legible symbols are visible on the bronze surface in this photograph. There is also no clearly visible cartouche, Greek lettering, Coptic, or Arabic text. The object appears dark and weathered with surface speckling and oxidation consistent with bronze wear. A museum-style rectangular plinth/base is visible beneath the figure.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.382 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9634 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.