Funerary Stela
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Graeco-Egyptian Caption: Graeco-Egyptian. Funerary Stela, 4th–3rd century B.C.E.. Marble, 9 5/8 × 2 5/16 × 19 in. (24.5 × 5.9 × 48.2 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, 16.106. (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 carved relief of a standing figure and a small animal, with Greek inscriptions.
The artifact depicts a carved relief in a rectangular frame featuring a standing human figure adorned in flowing attire. The figure appears to be holding or interacting with a smaller animal, possibly a dog. The scene is topped with a triangular pediment, suggesting an architectural element. Below the figures, several lines of Greek text are visible, carved into the stone surface.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.106 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9363 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.