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

Elaborately Painted Shroud of Neferhotep, Son of Herrotiou

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Description

Caption: Elaborately Painted Shroud of Neferhotep, Son of Herrotiou, 100–225 C.E.. Linen, pigment, 21 1/8 × 69 in. (53.6 × 175.3 cm) As mounted: 76 7/8 × 29 1/8 × 2 in. (195.3 × 74 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 75.114. (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.

Depiction of a coffin lid with intricate designs and hieroglyphs.

The artifact is a vertical view of an Egyptian coffin lid, adorned with a geometrically patterned rectangle and flanked by columns of hieroglyphs. The intricate design includes depictions of feet and winged symbols beneath. The style suggests traditional Egyptian artistic conventions with detailed rendering of symbolic motifs.

funerary New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials linenpigment
Signs feet winged sun disk
Visible text "Unclear hieroglyphs surround the artwork."

Connections

Found at Thebes

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 75.114 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3845 tier-2
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