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Large Tag for Mummy

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Description

Object Label: Among the most common so-called daily-life scenes found in Old Kingdom tombs are ones in which servants parade livestock or food as their master sits watching. Where this was meant to take place is a matter of debate. Did these scenes occur in the hereafter, did they depict actual events in the lifetime of the tomb owner, or were they symbolic in nature? This block shows a number of motifs drawn from such scenes. Their asymmetrical arrangement and the size of the object itself raise questions about the original purpose of the block. It may be an artist's model or a fragment of a stela. Caption: Large Tag for Mummy, 664–332 B.C.E.. Wood, pigment, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 9/16 in. (14 x 9.5 x 1.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1394E. (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 wooden artifact with hieratic script inscribed across its surface.

The artifact is a rectangular piece of wood bearing several lines of hieratic script. The script is written in dark ink and spans across the artifact's surface, showing signs of age and wear. The wood has a notable patina, indicative of its antiquity. The script appears to be a document or label, providing insights into administrative or daily aspects of ancient Egyptian life.

hieroglyphic only unknown good
Materials wood
Signs hieratic script ×5
Visible text "isis per etep"

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Wood

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1394E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117942 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.