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

Votive Stela

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Description

Caption: Votive Stela, ca. 1292–1190 B.C.E.. Limestone, 10 5/16 x 7 1/16 x 1 9/16 in. (26.2 x 17.9 x 3.9 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, 16.141. (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 limestone stela depicting standing figures with a worshipper below.

The artifact is a limestone stela showing two standing figures, likely deities, with a smaller kneeling figure in a pose of adoration beneath them. The style is typical of Egyptian relief carvings, with hieroglyphs present near the bottom. The stela shows signs of weathering but retains clear details of the figures' postures and the hieroglyphs.

religious New Kingdom good
Deities unknown
Materials limestone
Signs ankh djed

Connections

Found at Egypt
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.141 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9417 tier-2
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