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

Fragment of Temple Relief

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Description

Caption: Fragment of Temple Relief, 664–332 B.C.E.. Limestone, 9 5/8 × 10 1/16 × 3 3/8 in. (24.5 × 25.5 × 8.5 cm) mount: 11 × 11 × 3 1/2 in. (27.9 × 27.9 × 8.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1357E. (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 depicting a falcon with an ankh symbol and a sun disk.

The artifact is a square carved stone featuring a detailed image of a falcon, which is commonly associated with the god Horus. The falcon is accompanied by an ankh, symbolizing life, and a sun disk, which has celestial associations. The style is characteristic of Egyptian symbolic and religious art.

religious unknown good
Deities Horus
Materials limestone
Signs ankh

Connections

Found at Egypt
Deities Horus
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.1357E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 117909 tier-2
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