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

Inlay in the Figure of a Soul

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Description

Caption: Inlay in the Figure of a Soul, 525–30 B.C.E.. Glass, 1 5/16 × 1 1/4 × 3/16 in. (3.4 × 3.2 × 0.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1240E. (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 small blue artifact fragment with red numbering.

The image depicts a fragmentary piece of what appears to be an ancient Egyptian artifact, likely made of blue faience. The surface is smooth, with a darker, rich blue color. The fragment seems to have remnants of form, suggesting it was part of a larger object, possibly ornamental. The red inscription on the artifact is a modern inventory or catalog number.

unclear unknown fragmentary
Materials faience

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Deities Horus
Materials Faience

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1240E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117809 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.
  • 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.