Painted Shroud
Description
Caption: Painted Shroud, 664–332 B.C.E.. Muslin, pigment, 17 5/16 x 16 3/4 in. (44 x 42.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1818E. (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 fragment of an ancient Egyptian coffin or mummy covering featuring a winged scarab and several deities.
This artifact is a painted fragment likely from a coffin or mummy wrapping. It depicts a winged scarab, a symbol commonly associated with rebirth and the sun, at the center. Below, there are several depictions of Egyptian deities, each facing forward in a traditional, stylized manner. The fragment is bordered by registers containing hieroglyphic inscriptions. The artwork is vibrant but partially deteriorated due to its age.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1818E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118337 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.