Writing Exercise Tablet
Description
Caption: Writing Exercise Tablet, 4th century C.E.. Wood, wax, 6 13/16 × 5 3/16 × 3/16 in. (17.3 × 13.1 × 0.5 cm) mount: 5 × 5 3/4 × 4 in. (12.7 × 14.6 × 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1910E.
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 wooden writing tablet from ancient Egypt.
This image depicts a rectangular wooden writing tablet used in ancient Egypt. The tablet appears worn, with visible cracks and an overall weathered surface. Three holes are present on the left side, indicating it may have been bound together with other tablets or had functional attachments. A small label with writing is visible on the top right corner.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1910E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118415 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.