Cartonnage Fragment with the Deceased
Description
Caption: Cartonnage Fragment with the Deceased, ca. 760–656 B.C.E.. Linen, gesso, pigment, 7 15/16 × 4 5/8 × 1/2 in. (20.2 × 11.7 × 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.2050E.
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 painted fragment depicting an Egyptian figure and hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a painted fragment that shows an Egyptian figure wearing a traditional headdress and attire. There are colorful horizontal bands at the top with visible hieroglyphs beneath them. The artistry suggests it could belong to a decorative or funerary context, with the figure potentially being a noble or divine personage, indicated by the attire and pose. The paint is well-preserved, featuring bright colors commonly used in New Kingdom artworks.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.2050E tier-2
- BKM-Object 224162 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.
- 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.