Lid of a Sarcophagus
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Aramaic Caption: Aramaic. Lid of a Sarcophagus, ca. 664–332 B.C.E.. Terracotta, pigment, 35 x 23 x 5 in. (88.9 x 58.4 x 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1517E. (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 carved stone stela featuring a human head with elaborate hair or headdress.
The artifact is a carved stela made of stone, depicting a stylized human head with prominent features. The headdress or hair is detailed, suggesting a figure of significance. The stela has a weathered appearance with visible cracks and minor surface erosion, indicating its antiquity. The overall shape is rectangular with a rounded top, commonly associated with Egyptian stelae.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1517E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118048 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.