Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · stela

Lower Portion of Stela? Late PeriodDiospolis Parva, Egypt

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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-5.4-nano

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.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Not confidently transcribable from the image due to wear and low legibility; inscription appears to be continuous hieroglyphic text in multiple horizontal lines.

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.211 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9477 tier-2
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