Footcase of a Mummy with Images of Defeated Enemies Under the Feet
Description
Caption: Footcase of a Mummy with Images of Defeated Enemies Under the Feet, ca. 1st century C.E.. Plaster, pigment, gold leaf, 9 13/16 x 10 3/16 x 5 1/2 in. (25 x 25.8 x 13.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 73.89. (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 painted and gilded Egyptian funerary footcase/plinth fragment with patterned side bands and gold-painted central area resembling toes/feet.
The image shows a curved, shell-like object with decorative bands. Along both left and right edges are dark-blue/black and multicolored checkered mosaic-style panels (blue, yellow, and pale squares). Across the top/upper center is a gilded, gold leaf–like rectangular/arched field bordered by red paint, containing a row of rounded forms that visually resemble individual toes or feet projections. The lower edge includes additional painted bands in muted colors (ochre/yellow, red, dark tones) but no clear readable hieroglyphs are visible at this resolution. No legible Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent. No clearly identifiable royal cartouche or names are visible.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 73.89 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3827 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.