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-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 carved stone funerary stele showing a standing male figure holding a small figure or object, with a panel of relief and an inscribed register beneath.
The image depicts a rectangular funerary stela with a recessed scene framed by architectural elements. In the upper portion, a standing human figure (male, nude/partly draped) is carved in relief, facing forward, with arms held in front. He appears to hold or present a smaller attendant figure or a compact object to his right side (viewer’s right). Below the standing figure is a horizontal band containing engraved text in multiple lines, arranged like a funerary inscription. The inscription is the most legible non-figure element, though individual signs cannot be confidently read from the provided resolution. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is clearly visible. No clear royal cartouche is identifiable in the inscription area. The object is consistent with the catalogue description as a funerary stele; although the material color/finish appears stone rather than clearly marble, there is no direct visual evidence contradicting the “Marble” label.
Connections
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.