Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Fragment of a Sarcophagus
Description
Caption: Fragment of a Sarcophagus, 664–332 B.C.E.. Black granite or basalt, 12 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 2 15/16 in. (32 x 21.5 x 7.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1519E. (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.
Fragment of an Egyptian stela with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a fragment of a stela featuring incised hieroglyphs arranged in horizontal registers. The carving appears to be of typical Egyptian style, likely from a formal textual document. Notable features include a depiction of birds and architectural elements in the hieroglyphs, providing clues to its possible content.
hieroglyphic only
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Signs
duck ×2
reed ×4
water ripple ×2
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1519E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118049 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.