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

Small Shrine with Figure of Osiris in Relief

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.541E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.541E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period, Saite Period
Date: 664–525 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 525 BCE
Materials: ['Bronze']
Height: 7.4 cm
Width: 2.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Caption: Small Shrine with Figure of Osiris in Relief, 664–525 B.C.E.. Bronze, 2 15/16 x 1 x 3/4 in. (7.4 x 2.5 x 2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.541E. (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 dark-metal Egyptian shrine-like object in relief showing a standing, mummiform deity figure in a narrow rectangular frame.

The image shows a compact, vertically oriented object with a bulbous top element and an inset rectangular panel. Inside the panel is a standing, mummiform figure with a shrouded body and head/hat-like form, rendered in low relief. The outer frame around the figure is bordered by relief bands, and there is an additional darker segment at the bottom that includes what appears to be incised/relief markings, but the individual signs are not clear enough to identify reliably. No clear royal name cartouche is visible. No modern mounting text or labels appear on the object itself; only the object silhouette and lighting against a plain background are visible. Overall appearance is consistent with a small bronze shrine or votive/amulet form, but the exact material cannot be visually confirmed beyond the catalogue assignment, and the precise hieroglyphs are unclear.

religious Late Period / Saite Period (per catalogue) good

Deities Osiris (mummiform figure; identification consistent but not fully verifiable from image alone)

Materials unknown metal (catalogue states bronze)

Signs incised/relief marks on lower band (unidentified) ×8

Visible text "Unidentified incised/relief signs on the lower band; no legible excerpt available."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Unidentified incised/relief signs on the lower band; no legible excerpt available.

Connections

Deities Osiris

Materials Stone Bronze

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.541E tier-2
BKM-Object 117184 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.