Fragment of a Decorated Bowl
Description
Object Label: The maiden represented on this fragment wears a lotus flower, an unguent cone, and an elaborate wig on her head. She carries a pole from which hang a bunch of lotus flowers and a brace of ducks. When complete, the scene probably showed her on a papyrus skiff. Such details frequently appear in New Kingdom tomb paintings of duck hunts in the Nile marshes. Caption: Fragment of a Decorated Bowl, ca. 1336–1295 B.C.E.. Faience, 3 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. (8.3 x 4.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 51.227. (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 fragmentary piece depicting a musician playing a horn-like instrument.
This artifact is a pottery shard featuring an image of a seated musician blowing into a large horn. The musician, dressed in traditional Egyptian attire, is surrounded by stylized plants or feathers. The artwork is indicative of daily life scenes, showcasing musical entertainment. The presence of a rule for scale indicates archaeological documentation.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 51.227 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3567 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.
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