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

Column

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 16.267. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 16.267
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Roman Period
Date: 2nd–3rd century C.E.
Date range: 200 CE – 299 CE
Materials: ['Terracotta', 'pigment']
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 3.2 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Column (16.267). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/17671

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Description

Caption: Column, 2nd–3rd century C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 4 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (11.5 × 3.2 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, 16.267. (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, weathered terracotta architectural element shaped like a column capital, with carved ornament on the top section.

The image shows a hand-sized terracotta column fragment viewed from the front. The lower portion is a simple cylindrical shaft with a slightly tapered profile. At the top, a blocky capital/collar is carved in low relief; the central area has an indistinct molded form suggesting a decorative panel or stylized element, but the details are too worn to identify specific Egyptian iconography or text. Small surface pitting and loss of fine features indicate an overall fragmentary condition. No legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other script are visible in the photograph. Pigment is not clearly distinguishable from the stone/terracotta surface in this image, though the catalog lists pigment; the image color/lighting provides no confident confirmation of specific pigment remnants.

royal Roman Period (per catalogue; carved features too worn to refine) fragmentary

Materials terracotta

Connections

Materials Limestone Terracotta

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 16.267 tier-2
BKM-Object 9525 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.
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Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
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