Male and Female Offering Bearers
Description
Object Label: These figures must once have formed part of a tomb relief of a procession of figures bringing offerings to the deceased. Semi-nudity for subservient figures is not rare in Egyptian art. However, the combination of these figures' scanty attire, the boldness of the relief carving, and the semi-frontal depiction of the woman is sufficiently unusual to help date this relief to the second half of the fourth century B.C. Caption: Male and Female Offering Bearers, 4th century B.C.E.. Limestone, 5 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (13 × 7.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 77.193. (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.
A fragmentary relief depicting two figures, likely of significant status.
The artifact is a limestone relief showing partial figures, one of which appears to be a person of high status, possibly a deity or royal figure, suggested by the intricate garment and posture. The composition is vertical with notable detail in the drapery and the defined human forms. The relief is partially damaged, which is characteristic of many ancient artifacts, yet the craftsmanship remains visible.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 77.193 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3865 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.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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