Lower Portion of Stela?
Description
Caption: Lower Portion of Stela?, ca. 760–747 B.C.E., or later. Limestone, 11 7/16 × 13 in. (29 × 33 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.211. (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.
An ancient stone artifact inscribed with several lines of hieroglyphs.
This stone inscription features multiple horizontal lines of hieroglyphs, meticulously carved into the surface. The composition is orderly and suggests a formal register, possibly indicating a historical or commemorative text. The edges of the stone are uneven, indicating that this might be a fragment of a larger piece. The technique exhibits skilled craftsmanship typical of Egyptian monumental inscriptions.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.211 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9477 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.