Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · stela
Fragment from a Family Niche Stela
Description
Caption: Fragment from a Family Niche Stela, ca. 525–404 B.C.E.. Schist, 17 3/8 x 16 3/4 x 5 5/16 in. (44.2 x 42.5 x 13.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 73.86.
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 stone artifact with vertical inscriptions and partially visible figures.
The image shows a fragment of stone with inscriptions running vertically. The preserved portion features signs that appear to be part of a larger scene, possibly depicting individuals or deities. The stone seems weathered, indicating age, and the inscriptions are carved into the surface.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
unknown ×3
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 73.86 tier-2
- BKM-Object 99913 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.