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Privy Counsellor of Amun, Ku

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.178E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.178E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26 to Dynasty 30
Date: 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Faience']
Height: 11.3 cm
Width: 3.1 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Caption: Privy Counsellor of Amun, Ku, 664–332 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 7/16 x 1 1/4 x 11/16 in. (11.3 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.178E. (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 small greenish faience amulet/seal-like figurine depicting a seated/standing bearded man holding a small object, with a vertical register of incised hieroglyphic text on its front.

The image shows a single upright object photographed against a neutral background. The figure appears as a human male with a long beard and a head covering, rendered in low relief on the upper portion. Beneath the torso is a vertical field densely marked with incised/engraved hieroglyphic signs arranged in lines. The lower end terminates in a flat base. A small rectangular museum label is visible at the bottom but is not clearly readable beyond inventory-like digits. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. The hieroglyphs are present, but the image resolution does not allow confident reading of individual signs or any specific name/carthouche.

religious Late Period (as catalogued); exact dynasty/regnal year unclear from image alone. good

Deities Amun (implied by catalogue subject; not directly readable in image)

Royals Ku (as part of title/name per catalogue; not legible in image)

Materials green faience

Signs unknown incised hieroglyphic signs (vertical text) ×20

Connections

Deities Amun

Materials Faience Green Faience

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.178E tier-2
BKM-Object 116886 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.