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

Rectangular Textile with Decorative Strips

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Description

Caption: Rectangular Textile with Decorative Strips, 395–642 C.E.. Linen, 9 × 49 in. (22.9 × 124.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.2051E.

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 textile artifact with a central decorative band.

The artifact is a piece of textile featuring a central band with a wavy, undulating pattern in dark and light colors. The textile appears to be woven, with the decorative band indicating a possible symbolic or decorative function. The edges of the fabric are frayed, indicating age or wear.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials textile

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials LinenTextile

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.2051E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 224783 tier-2
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.