Sculptor's Trial Piece
Description
Caption: Sculptor's Trial Piece, ca. 1292–525 B.C.E.. Limestone, 6 5/16 × 4 5/16 × 1 in. (16.1 × 11 × 2.5 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, 16.55. (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.
Depicts a profile of a person with hieroglyphic symbols.
The artifact is a stone relief showing the profile of a person, possibly a deity or royal figure, in Ancient Egyptian style. It is accompanied by hieroglyphic symbols beneath the figure. The composition is typical of Egyptian bas-relief with a focus on profile views. Notable features include the detailed headpiece worn by the figure.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.55 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9323 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.