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

Offering Bearers and Floral Bouquet

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Description

Caption: Offering Bearers and Floral Bouquet, 332–30 B.C.E. (possibly). Plaster, 6 3/8 x 5 13/16 in. (16.2 x 14.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 35.1312. (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.

Plaster relief panel showing multiple human figures carrying offerings and/or a floral bouquet toward a central figure in an enclosed scene.

The object is a roughly rectangular plaster relief with rounded/arched top and broken edges. Inside the border, several standing figures in profile and three-quarter view wear Egyptian-style garments and headgear; they hold staffs or offering items in front of their bodies. A central area shows a rounded/ornamental form that may represent a floral arrangement or bunch held at mid-height, with surrounding figures presenting offerings toward it. The surface is damaged and weathered, with many carved details softened or lost. There is no clearly legible hieroglyphic text, cartouche, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic inscription visible in the provided image; any marks appear to be part of the relief modeling rather than readable script.

religious Ptolemaic Period (possibly), based on the catalogue ground truth; exact dating uncertain from the image alone. fragmentary
Materials Plaster

Connections

Materials Plaster

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 35.1312 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 44923 tier-2
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