Funerary Stela of Chairemon
Description
Caption: Graeco-Egyptian. Funerary Stela of Chairemon, 3rd–4th century C.E., or later. Limestone, 13 x 2 5/8 x 15 1/4 in. (33 x 6.6 x 38.8 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, 16.90. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
Relief depicting a standing figure flanked by two canines.
The artifact is a stone relief showing the lower half of a standing figure, possibly a deity or individual of importance, with two long-bodied canines facing inward. The style is typical of ancient Egyptian relief work with a focus on a flat, two-dimensional representation. The composition is symmetric with the figure centrally positioned, emphasizing balance.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.90 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9348 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.