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Thoth Holding Wadjet

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1819E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 37.1819E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period (probably)
Dynasty: Dynasty 26, or later
Date: 664–332 B.C.E., or later
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Linen']
Height: 44.0 cm
Width: 22.2 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Caption: Thoth Holding Wadjet, 664–332 B.C.E., or later. Linen, 17 5/16 x 8 3/4 in. (44 x 22.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1819E. (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 recto view of a fragmentary ink-drawn depiction on a light, linen-like support, showing a male figure with a stylized head and outstretched arms toward a snake-like figure or emblem.

The image shows a rectangular, worn fragment of a writing/drawing surface with a single, black-ink line drawing. Center-left stands a nude or minimally sketched male figure wearing what appears to be a ceremonial headpiece (tall, crown-like form) and holding one arm across the body while the other arm extends outward. At the upper right the extended arm gestures toward a snake-like, coiled or upright element/emblem with a head facing the figure’s direction. Below the figure is a short kilt or apron rendered by horizontal banding. The background contains faint horizontal streaks consistent with handling, aging, or underlying text lines, but no clearly legible hieroglyphs are identifiable at this resolution. There are no visible cartouches, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present in the visible area.

religious Late Period (probably), as given by catalogue; exact date unclear from image alone. fragmentary

Deities Thoth (implied/possible; not clearly confirmable in this image)Wadjet (implied/possible snake emblem; not clearly confirmable in this image)

Materials linen (catalogue; surface appears linen-like but material identification from image is not definitive)

Connections

Deities Thoth Wadjet

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1819E tier-2
BKM-Object 118338 tier-2

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