Gathering Lotuses
Description
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)
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 relief depicting a figure holding plants.
The relief shows a figure, possibly a male, in a pose that suggests movement or participation in a ritual or daily task, holding papyrus plants. The figure is shown in profile with detailed hair and facial features. The background includes a bird perched, possibly indicating a natural or agricultural setting. The style of carving is typical of Egyptian relief work, with clear lines and a focus on profile depiction.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 55.3.3 tier-2
- BKM-Object 4239 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.
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