False Door Stela
Description
Caption: False Door Stela, 6th century B.C.E.. Limestone, 11 15/16 × 9 7/16 × 2 15/16 in. (30.3 × 24 × 7.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1354E.
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 limestone slab shows a rectangular offering/false-door frame with recessed inner rectangles and surrounding incised hieroglyph-like decoration.
The object appears as a stone stele featuring a large rectangular false-door motif: a thick outer frame enclosing successively smaller recessed rectangles, creating a deep doorway-like niche. Around and within the outer frame are numerous incised signs arranged in vertical columns on both the left and right sides; the signs are worn/abraded but clearly read as Egyptian hieroglyphic-style carvings rather than modern markings. No legible royal cartouche is confidently identifiable from the image resolution. No figures of specific deities are clearly discernible in the visible field; the iconography is dominated by the architectural false-door/serdab-like frame and surrounding inscriptions. A few isolated circular/oval and cross/line signs are visible but cannot be reliably assigned to specific determinatives or names. Overall carving and edges are intact though surface wear is present.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1354E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117907 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.