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Gathering Lotuses Third Intermediate PeriodThebes (El-Assasif), Egypt

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 55.3.3. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 55.3.3
Find spot: Thebes (El-Assasif), Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: late Dynasty 25
Date: ca. 670–650 B.C.E.
Date range: 670 BCE – 650 BCE
Materials: ['Limestone', 'pigment']
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 15.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Gathering Lotuses (55.3.3). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18827

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Object Label: Brother Simeon Schwemberger was an amateur photographer at St. Michael's Mission School. Stewart Culin, the Museum's first curator of ethnology, acquired more than ninety of Schwemberger's photographs and used them to illustrate his expedition reports. After Culin's death in 1929, the Museum's Trustees acquired his personal library and papers, a purchase noted in the Museum's Annual Report as "The important event of the year." Culin was a bibliophile whose personal library numbered close to seven thousand books, periodicals, and pamphlets with texts in several languages, predominantly on the art and ethnology of the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Culin's research files and expedition reports are an important resource on the history of the objects he collected and on Native American, Asian, and Eastern European cultures. Caption: Egyptian. Gathering Lotuses, ca. 670–650 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 5 5/16 x 5 7/8 in. (13.5 x 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 55.3.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Found at Thebes

Materials Limestone Pigment

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 55.3.3 tier-2
BKM-Object 4239 tier-2

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