Relief of the Theban Divine Family
Description
Object Label: The relief on the right depicts the God's Wife of Amun Amunirdis I, making an offering of Ma'at to the god Amun-Re. Behind Amun-Re stands Khonsu, his son by his chief consort Mut. These three divinities comprise the divine family of the Theban region. The relief on the left shows Amun-Re and Mut. Because the two scenes are comparable though reversed, it seems likely that Amun-Re and Mut faced another God's Wife of Amun. The shallow sunk relief and the treatment of the faces are typical of Twenty-fifth Dynasty reliefs found on the small chapels in Thebes. Provenance: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Relief of the Theban Divine Family, ca. 710–670 B.C.E.. Sandstone, 28 15/16 x 31 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (73.5 x 79 x 4.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 87.184.2. (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 stone relief depicting a seated pharaoh and a standing figure, both wearing traditional headpieces, with hieroglyphic inscriptions surrounding them.
The artifact is a limestone relief showing a pharaoh seated on a throne, wearing the tall double crown, usually associated with authority and unification of upper and lower Egypt. Adjacent to the pharaoh stands another figure, possibly a deity or royal consort, also in traditional attire. The artwork includes surrounding hieroglyphic inscriptions likely describing the depicted individuals or their accomplishments. The craftsmanship suggests adept skill in stone carving, typical of royal or religious art pieces.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 87.184.2 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3927 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.